On February 14, Mayor Emanuel released Resilient Chicago, a roadmap for addressing the city’s most pressing challenges through the lens of urban resilience. As one of the 50 actionable initiatives detailed in Resilient Chicago, Mayor Emanuel announced the bold goal of powering the entire city with 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2035.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors voted today to retire the remaining coal unit at the Paradise power plant in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and the Bull Run coal plant in Anderson County, Tennessee. The vote was a clear repudiation of President Trump’s inappropriate and unusual tactic to block the TVA staff’s recommendation to phase out the units over the next several years.
The Sierra Club asked the public to write climate valentines to the EPA for delivery and today it will deliver hundreds to former coal lobbyist and acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler for the sole hearing on his effort to roll back life-saving climate standards for dirty power plants.
Philadelphia, PA -- Today, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the EPA’s national action plan on PFAS. PFAS chemicals are widely detected in drinking water and toxic at very low levels. However they are currently exempted from most environmental safeguards. Still, EPA has the power to mandate water testing, stop on-going pollution, and clean up contaminated places.
Washington, D.C.– Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed the Every Kid Outdoors Act as part of the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). The bill now moves on to the House of Representative for House consideration.
Tomorrow at 10:00 am at the Riverfront Community Center, the EPA Region 7 office is hosting a press conference in Leavenworth, Kansas where they will announce their PFAS national action plan.
Today, Diné (Navajo) community organizations Tó Nizhóni Ání and Black Mesa Water Coalition, along with Sierra Club, filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue Peabody Western Coal Company, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy, for failing to disclose the upcoming closure of its Kayenta coal mine in its permit renewal application. The 44,000-acre Kayenta coal mine is on track to end operations when the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) -- the mine’s only customer -- closes on December 22, 2019.
Tomorrow at 10 am at the Fountain City Council, the EPA is hosting a community meeting in Fountain, Colorado where they will announce their PFAS national action plan.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). The bill establishes permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, includes the Every Kid Outdoors Act, and protects more than two million acres of public land, including the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Emery County and Yellowstone Gateway, and the Methow Headwaters Withdrawal. It also creates a new National Monument honoring civil rights icon Medgar Evers in Mississippi. The bill now heads to the House, which is expected to consider the measure soon.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that, in a cynical political ploy, he will rush a vote on the Green New Deal resolution proposed by Senator Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rather than allowing it to go through the hearings and legislative process it was intended to have. This news comes after McConnell pushed to keep a costly and unreliable coal plant open, at the expense of his own constituents.