Oscoda, MI-- This morning, the Detroit Free Press reported that Attorney General Bill Schuette is “dragging his feet” on yet another case of PFAS contamination in Michigan. Schuette’s office sat on complaints for over nine months concerning the U.S. Air Force’s contamination of water adjacent to the Wurtsmith Air Force Base, which was closed due to PFAS water contamination years ago.
Miami, FL -- On behalf of endangered representative Carlos Curbelo, the National Republican Campaign Committee is running a misleading ad which lies about Debbie Mucarsel-Powell’s record and commitment to act on climate change. Carlos Curbelo has long claimed to be an advocate for climate action, but his voting record shows otherwise. Curbelo has voted to increase LNG exports, approve the Keystone XL pipeline, open up the Arctic Refuge for drilling, and attacked clean energy while increasing funding for fossil fuels.
On Friday, November 2, local environmental and Indigenous advocates, faith leaders, Youth Climate Intervenors, and members of local tribes will attend their first court appearance following a peaceful act of civil disobedience urging Governor Mark Dayton to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
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A total of nine cities and one county have opted to power their communities with 100 percent renewable electricity through Clean Power Alliance, a new Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, a new study released by scientists at Princeton University found that the world’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat than previously thought, indicating that the climate crisis may be even more dire than first realized. Warmer oceans correlate to stronger superstorms and exacerbate climate effects like coral bleaching.
Community groups and advocates hand-delivered over 10,000 citizen protest comments to the Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico state office in snowy Santa Fe today in opposition to an oil and gas lease sale scheduled for December that would auction off close to 100,000 acres of public lands in New Mexico for industrialized fracking.
Nation’s Largest Grassroots Conservation Organization Praises Ocasio-Cortez’s Strong Commitment to Climate Action
New York, NY -- Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for New York’s 14th Congressional District.
The Sierra Club submitted more than 56,000 public comments from its members and supporters opposing the Trump Administration’s Dirty Power Plan today, the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comment period.
Zinke Made the Remark at the National Monument Designation of a Historical Site for African American Soldiers