December 21, 2018
St. Paul, MN -- Today, the Minnesota Department of Commerce filed an appeal challenging the Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC) June approval of the permits for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
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December 20, 2018
Washington, DC-- Today, despite the Senate agreeing on a clean funding package, Donald Trump and GOP members of the House are confirming they will shut down the government if they do not receive billions of dollars for a border wall.
In response, Dan Millis, Grand Canyon Chapter Borderlands Program Manager released the following statement:
December 20, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, the Department of the Interior released a draft environmental impact statement on its plan to hold a lease sale for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, moving one step closer to drilling in one of America’s last wild places.
December 19, 2018
SAINT PAUL, MN -- Today, opponents of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline filed multiple lawsuits with the Court of Appeals challenging the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approval of the project. On June 28, the PUC approved Enbridge’s proposal to build a new Line 3 pipeline, which would run through Northern Minnesota and double the amount of oil running through the pipeline.
December 19, 2018
the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board (Board) delayed a vote on a crucial permit for a fracked gas compressor station
December 19, 2018
Harrisburg, PA -- Yesterday Pennsylvania, along with a bipartisan group of governors from eight other states and the Mayor of Washington DC, announced a plan to design a regional policy to limit climate disrupting carbon pollution from the transportation sector. The states are members of the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), which was formed in 2010 and recently completed a series of listening sessions across the region to hear directly from stakeholders and the public.
December 18, 2018
Advocates working to protect public health and stop climate change attended a public hearing on changes to a DTE Energy coal plant with risk adversely affecting health.
December 18, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club filed a motion at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) for Commissioner Bernard McNamee to recuse himself from two dockets at the Commission. The motion, which Sierra Club filed with Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, and EarthJustice, argues McNamee should not be involved in decisions about whether changes are needed to ensure grid reliability and resilience. McNamee should recuse himself because his prior work on two coal bailout proposals initiated by the Trump administration, including the Grid Resiliency Pricing Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “DOE NOPR”), create an unacceptable risk that he has already made up his mind on the issues underlying these dockets. FERC could make a decision on these matters early next year.
December 18, 2018
On the heels of the widely publicized release of a report on pervasive groundwater contamination at Illinois’ coal ash sites, and inaction from Governor Rauner’s Illinois EPA, Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against Texas-based Vistra Energy for ongoing and repeated violations of Illinois water quality standards at three of its Illinois coal plants.
December 18, 2018
The public comment period closed last night at midnight on EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s proposal to gut key safeguards limiting methane pollution from new oil and gas operations.