WASHINGTON, D.C— The Trump administration today announced a new proposed rule to circumvent establishing habitat protections for endangered species. The rule follows a string of other proposals to weaken the Endangered Species Act, including another rule proposed just last month putting additional restrictions on designation of critical habitat.
[Lacey, WA] -- Today, the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) released a new draft environmental analysis to evaluate the greenhouse gas impacts of the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed in Kalama, Washington. The methanol refinery would use up to 320 million cubic feet of fracked gas per day, more than all of Washington’s gas-fired power plants combined.
Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Sara Gideon in the race for US Senate. Gideon, the current Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, is the leading challenger facing off against four-term incumbent Susan Collins.
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors took historic steps to protect vulnerable frontline communities by establishing buffer zones separating oil wells from homes and schools.
Duke Energy has filed its long-term energy plans with state regulators, laying out options that could bring an end to most coal burning by 2030, but that still envision decades of dependence on dangerous fracked gas.
The Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of Jon Ossoff in the race for U.S. Senate.
Boston, MA -- Tonight, Senator Ed Markey won the Massachusetts Democratic senate primary. The Sierra Club endorsed the Senator last September, citing his decades of leadership in Congress fighting to tackle the climate crisis, advance clean energy, and protect public lands, including co-authoring both the American Clean Energy Security Act and the Green New Deal joint resolution.
Washington, DC— Today, the Trump administration proposed gutting protections for national forest lands— granting easier access to the fossil fuel industry for drilling and fracking on the landscapes.
Today, former coal lobbyist and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized another rollback of key clean water protections, which had been put in place to prevent the vast majority of coal plants across the United States from dumping their toxic, industrial sludge into the drinking water sources of millions of Americans.
Radnor Township, PA -- On Tuesday evening, the Radnor Township School Board unanimously passed a resolution establishing a goal seeking to establish 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2030, and to electrify all other energy needs - heating, cooking, cooling, and transportation - by 2040.