This week, advocates from both Wisconsin and Minnesota testified in opposition to the Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant proposed for construction in Superior, just two miles from the Minnesota border. The plant, proposed by Minnesota Power and Dairyland Power, has already been approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and must now get approval from the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC). At the hearing teenagers, seniors, residents of Wisconsin and Minnesota, including members of the Fond du Lac, Red Cliff, and Bad River Bands spoke in opposition to the plant. Testifiers raised concerns about climate change, treaty violations, the safety risks of being near the Husky Refinery, and the potential impact on Lake Superior. The project’s financial cost as well as climate and local environmental impacts were chief concerns among those in opposition.
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Today, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto came out in opposition to the continued buildout of polluting plastic and petrochemical facilities in Western Pennsylvania in favor of climate action.
Today, the Salt Lake County Council passed a resolution establishing a goal of powering the county with 100% clean, renewable electricity by 2030.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today issued a proclamation recognizing the 25th anniversary of the California Desert Protection Act. The proclamation celebrates the many contributions protected desert lands make to the local economy and quality of life. Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose Supervisorial District 5 is home to important protected desert lands, brought forth the proclamation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This evening, it was reported that automakers General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, Mazda and Mitsubishi are moving to intervene in support of the Trump administration in the legal battle over California’s long-standing authority to set more stringent emission standards for new motor vehicles, as well as to require automakers to manufacture increasing numbers of electric vehicles.
Cientos de miles de residentes en California han recibido órdenes de evacuación mientras los incendios que avanzan con gran velocidad continúan destruyendo hogares y comercios.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hundreds of thousands of California residents are under evacuation orders as fast-moving fires in Northern and Southern California continue to destroy homes and businesses.
DENVER, CO — Today, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountain, the Colorado AFL-CIO, and the Colorado Sierra Club delivered 17,026 petition signatures to Senator Cory Gardner demanding he vote no on the nomination of Donald Trump’s extreme Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. More than 3.2 million signatures were collected nationwide, the most ever in opposition to a Supreme Court nominee.
El director en funciones de la Oficina de Gestión de Terrenos (BML), William Pendley, declaró hoy que el muro fronterizo de Trump “está solucionando la crisis ambiental que impacta los terrenos más vulnerables de nuestro país”.
Tucson, AZ-- Today, the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) William Pendley stated that Trump’s border wall is “addressing the environmental crisis impacting our nation’s most vulnerable lands.” Yet, the President’s wall has already decimated over 600 acres of public lands-- bulldozing native plants, cutting off endangered wildlife migration corridors and draining precious water resources throughout the Southwest.