December 18, 2018
D.C. Council unanimously approves clean energy bill, commits to power the district entirely with renewable electricity by 2032
Press Releases
December 17, 2018
The Roanoke Times reported that Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC has admitted for the first time that their 300 mile, $4.6 billion pipeline may never be built, a stunning departure from the brave face the company has put forward publicly
December 17, 2018
Trenton, New Jersey -- Governor Murphy announced his plan to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative today, a multi-state program establishing limits on carbon pollution from the region’s power plants. The announcement comes after his January 2018 Executive Order directing the administration to re-enter the program. New Jersey is proposing to enter the regional program starting at 18 million tons/CO2 per year. Current states included in RGGI are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Virginia and New Jersey both now plan to participate.
December 15, 2018
KATOWICE, POLAND -- Today, the 24th annual UN Climate Negotiations (COP24) concluded. During the talks, countries met to hash out the details of the Paris Agreement rulebook, which will provide guidance for the implementation of the landmark climate deal.
December 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Prompted by more than a dozen investigations into his behavior and actions -- including one that has been sent to the Department of Justice -- Donald Trump announced that Ryan Zinke is out at the Department of the Interior this morning. While serving, Zinke led the largest attack on America’s public lands and waters in history eliminating protections for more than 2 million acres of public lands and opening up all our coasts for oil and gas drilling
December 14, 2018
SACRAMENTO -- The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a rule today that will phase in clean buses statewide, taking a giant step towards tackling health-threatening transportation pollution.
The Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) Rule will require that all public transit agencies in California replace old buses that emit pollution with zero-emission buses by 2040.
December 14, 2018
BOSTON -- Today Governor Baker announced the release of a long-awaited report on the Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth. This report lays out the administration’s comprehensive vision for improvements to the Massachusetts transportation system. Among other things, it attempts to address critically needed reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, resilience strategies in anticipation of increasingly severe impacts of climate change, and glaring inequities in the existing system.
December 14, 2018
Buffalo, NY -- After workers at Tesla’s Buffalo Solar Factory reached out to the United Steelworkers (USW) about organizing a union, USW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers launched a union organizing drive at the facility yesterday. 400 workers are employed at this plant, which is on the site of a former steel mill where workers were represented by the USW.
December 14, 2018
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, a lease sale for offshore wind off the Massachusetts coast brought in a record-breaking $285 million in the first day of the auction alone.
December 13, 2018
Hundreds of people from Cowlitz County and neighboring areas attended a public hearing held by the Port of Kalama and Cowlitz County on the proposed fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery in Kalama, WA.