Washington, D.C. -- Earlier today, the Supreme Court of India was set to hear petitions in response to their February 13 order directing state governments to evict over one million Adivasis Indigenous and forest dwelling people from forests in 17 states.
Tonight the Glendale City Council voted to essentially scrap the plan to rebuild the Grayson Power Plant and to invest in clean energy storage solutions. Last week when the Berkeley City Council unanimously approved a ban on gas in newly constructed buildings.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Rep. Paul Tonko, and Chairman of the Energy Subcommittee Rep. Bobby L. Rush hosted a press conference announcing the committee’s plan to tackle the climate crisis by transitioning the country to 100% clean energy by 2050.
Today, the Ohio Senate and House concurred on HB 6; a new energy tax on Ohio electric customers and a complete catastrophe for a balanced informed energy policy and good governance.
Today, Washington Governor Jay Inslee joined the growing movement in Minnesota and across the country opposing Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline. If built, Line 3 would cross through critical ecological and cultural resources, threatening Minnesota’s land, clean water, Tribal sovereignty, and our climate.
Today, the Power Past Fracked Gas coalition expressed its deep disappointment in the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) preliminary approval of the Puget Sound Energy (PSE) Tacoma LNG facility.
Earlier today, Senators Leahy, Feinstein, Grassley, and Cornyn sent Andrew Wheeler and the EPA a letter on their dangerous changes to the FOIA process. Below is a quote from Sierra Club’s Legislative Director Melinda Pierce on the news:
The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied the appeal for Northern Pass, a private international transmission line sponsored by HydroQuebec and Eversource energy companies. New Hampshire Sierra Club opposed the Northern Pass project because of the projected local environmental damage created by its construction, as well as the ongoing harm done to the First Nations people and the flood rivers in Canada.
The New Hampshire Sierra Club supports the House and Senate approval of SB168, a bill that would expand the electric solar adoption standard for all of the electric utilities, and calls on Governor Sununu to make the bill law.
Sierra Club Connecticut, along with Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Not Another Power Plant, demonstrated in testimony that a 650 MW gas plant, slated to be built in Killingly, is not needed to meet the state’s energy needs, and, without enforceable limits on greenhouse gas emissions, will impede the state from achieving its own mandated energy goals.