March 12, 2019
Today, March 12, the New Mexico legislature passed the Energy Transition Act (SB 489), a bill that will make electricity generation 100 percent carbon-free by 2045 from the state’s investor-owned utilities.
Press Releases
March 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife heard expert testimony on the state of wildlife in the United States. Wildlife in every part of the nation face new threats from the effects of climate change on habitat, the Trump administration’s plans to gut the protection of the Endangered Species Act, and continued efforts to construct a wall along the U.S. Southern border which fragments migration corridors and increases flooding, resulting in more destruction of habitat.
March 12, 2019
Maryland is on the brink of becoming the first state to ban expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam food containers, as the State House passed a bill that would ban restaurants, grocery stores, and other food providers from using foam food containers because of their harmful impact on the environment.
March 12, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11, 2019 – Grassroots environmental organization Sierra Club, one of the most enduring and influential in the United States, is providing an opportunity for its more than 3.5 million members and supporters to go solar with SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR).
March 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler confirmed that the Trump administration will move to revoke California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act. The waiver allows the state to set stronger fuel efficiency standards. This all comes as the Trump administration moves to roll back the clean car standards for light-duty vehicles this spring.
March 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, a Shell executive said that electricity could squeeze out oil and gas as the main source of fuel for transportation in the next twenty years, and that with its own customers, the company is seeing significant shifts to electricity whenever possible. Shell has recently invested relatively small sums of money into electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
March 11, 2019
Earlier today, clean air, climate justice, and community advocates hosted a people’s forum on TECO’s plans for their Big Bend facility. TECO is proposing to continue burning coal while expanding the use of fracked gas at their Tampa-area power plants, despite the negative effects these dirty fuels will have on public health, the climate, and surrounding communities.
March 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in his speech at CERAWeek (Cambridge Energy Research Associates), EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said that “that those who oppose U.S. fossil fuel production are actually taking the most environmentally preferable energy source off the table for the rest of the world.”
March 11, 2019
Washington, DC-- Today, President Trump released his annual budget proposal which included some of the steepest proposed cuts yet to federal agencies that protect the health of the public and environment while increasing funds for more border wall by $8.6 billion. The border wall budget request comes after a 35-day-long government shutdown that ultimately ended in $1.3 billion more for border walls and Trump’s declaration of a national emergency in an attempt to gain more funds for construction on top of what was already allocated.
March 11, 2019
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the Trump Administration released the president’s 2020 budget proposal, and it includes deep cuts to virtually every program in government that protects Americans from environmental threats, including an outrageous 31% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency and massive cuts to other critical agencies, including 14% to the Department of Interior.