Using documents produced by a Sierra Club FOIA, E&E reported today that Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler worried about the optics of a meeting with Peabody Energy Corp. The coal company had invited Wheeler to speak at a Washington Coal Club luncheon. In 2018, Peabody spent $1,650,000 lobbying for policies that would make coal more profitable to produce including rolling back pollution protections.
Oak Creek, WI – Yesterday, over 150 people attending the hearing expressed opposition against several provisions of We Energies’ water discharge draft permit, including a proposed mercury variance that would allow We Energies to discharge mercury into Lake Michigan at up to three times the safe standard. The permit as written would also allow We Energies to continue a dirty, outdated process for treating coal ash until 2023, the latest possible date under federal EPA rules. 100 percent of the spoken comments were in opposition to the permit as written.
Yesterday, the Sierra Club launched their #TellTheTruthTECO campaign, designed to hold the Tampa Electric Company (TECO) accountable for doubling down on climate-disrupting fossil fuels like coal and gas, even as they prepare for the effects of climate change
Oak Creek, WI – Members of the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin are raising the alarm about the threat of coal pollution in Lake Michigan and other nearby surface water leading up to February’s Department of Natural Resource (DNR) hearing regarding a draft water discharge permit for We Energies’ Oak Creek facility. In late December, the DNR released a draft water discharge permit for the coal plants in Oak Creek and is currently seeking public input on the proposal.
This morning, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) are announcing plans to cancel billions worth of spending to repower three gas plants, totaling more than 1.6 gigawatts. Instead, the City will invest in transmission improvements and at least 3 gigawatts of clean energy and battery storage resources that will create thousands of union jobs.
Today, Governor Tim Walz announced that the state’s Department of Commerce will file a motion to reconsider the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approval of final conditions for Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 pipeline, paving the way for the DOC’s challenge of the decision to continue.
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA - On January 9, Springfield Township passed a resolution establishing goals of transitioning to 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2035, and 100 percent renewable energy for heat and transportation by 2050. The Springfield Township Board of Commissioners approved the full resolution here.
Last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, along with 66 House representatives and 10 Senators, introduced their highly-lauded Green New Deal resolution, which seeks to tackle the climate crisis, create millions of good, high-wage jobs, secure clean air and water, and counteract systemic injustices.
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives today would repeal a provision in the controversial December 2017 tax bill that opened up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. The Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act was introduced by Rep. Jared Huffman along with a total of 100 original co-sponsors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, nearly 60 Democratic members of the House of Representatives -- led by Representatives Huffman, Fitzpatrick, and Beyer -- introduced a resolution reaffirming the United States’ “commitment to the Paris Agreement and that the United States is still in and should not withdraw.”