California Energy Commission Makes a Big Move to End Gas Use in Buildings
CEC Prioritizes Building Electrification as a Critical Strategy to Cut Climate and Air Pollution with Approval of Statewide Policy Report
Today, the California Energy Commission (CEC) laid out an historic path to clean, healthy buildings by unanimously approving the update to the 2018 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR). This statewide policy report lays out recommendations on a broad range of topics that will require action if California is going to meet its climate and clean air goals without compromising energy reliability or affordability for consumers.
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club, ACLU of Texas, and ACLU of Northern California today filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s emergency powers declaration to secure funds to build a wall along the southern border. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition and was filed in the Northern District of California.
A federal court ruling today further delayed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by reaffirming that TransCanada cannot conduct any construction activity on the controversial tar sands pipeline and continuing to block most pre-construction field activities, including construction of worker camps.
Today, in a sweeping 98-2 victory, Virginia passed legislation that will protect Virginia’s water by requiring responsible cleanup of more than 28 million tons of coal ash in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The Tennessee Valley Authority today released a draft plan for how the federal utility proposes to generate electricity for its customers over the next 20 years, a day after the board of directors voted to phase out coal at its Bull Run plant in Tennessee and at its Paradise plant in western Kentucky.
Washington, DC -- Tonight, Donald Trump /will declare an unlawful state of emergency, in addition to signing a budget that includes more than 55 miles of border wall. Desperate for further funds for the unpopular wall, Trump’s declaration will reallocate money from other essential government programs and force taxpayers to fund the dangerous, divisive border wall that caused a three-week government shutdown.
Washington, D.C.– The U.S. Senate voted to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) as part of the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). The bill now moves on to the House of Representatives.
For decades, Michigan frontline environmental justice communities have suffered some of the worst effects of state pollution safeguards not being enforced, lack of infrastructure maintenance, and industry friendly interpretation of federal environmental regulation. Appalling neglect by state officials of their duties to these communities has resulted in some of the worst tragedies in recent memory, felt across the country. Michigan’s new Governor wants to change that with her first executive order, but now Republicans in the state legislature are attempting to derail her environmental agenda, with the Senate today voting to reject the executive order.
Yesterday, The Sierra Club filed testimony in NIPSCO’s rate case (Cause No. 45159) currently pending before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC).
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted to to confirm William Barr as Attorney General.