WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Nuclear Fuels Working Group released recommendations today calling for a revival of the uranium industry and increased U.S. exports. The recommendations are the latest proposal in a string of Trump administration rollbacks put forward during the coronavirus pandemic that would create new threats to public health. Though widely opposed, uranium industry bailouts have been floated as part of the country’s COVID-19 response.
SAINT LOUIS, MO -- The Sierra Club announced a new national “polluter watchdog” program yesterday by issuing Freedom of Information ACT (FOIA) and state-based open records requests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
DOVER, DE - State Senator Harris McDowell (District 1) unveiled critical legislation that would seriously increase Delaware’s utilization of renewable energy by expanding the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard and creating a new community solar market.
Washington, D.C. -- Environmental, community, and justice groups who have called for greater oversight of the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed) lending programs in response to the coronavirus crisis praised two letters sent to the Fed from Democratic lawmakers.
TEXAS -- Today, the Sierra Club announced the Texas rollout of a new “polluter watchdog” program, by issuing Freedom of Information ACT (FOIA) and Texas Public Information Act requests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
FERC approved a request from Sabal Trail Transmission to start operating a polluting facility in Albany, Ga., a hotspot for Coronavirus cases
As Bank of America faced shareholders today for its annual general meeting, the bank refused to rule out funding for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Sierra Club announced a new “polluter watchdog” program today, by issuing Freedom of Information ACT (FOIA) and state-based open records requests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state regulators who are refusing to enforce public health safeguards during the pandemic.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Environmental Protection Agency today published a final rule in the federal register stripping Clean Water Act protections for more than half the nation’s wetlands and millions of miles of streams. The cuts put drinking water sources for millions of people in the U.S. at risk and jeopardize the ability to counter floods, droughts, toxic algal blooms, groundwater depletion and other worsening water issues driven by the climate crisis.