October 21, 2018
This weekend, The New York Times revealed that the Trump Administration is planning a sweeping attack that would undermine current civil rights protections transgender people across the country.
Press Releases
October 19, 2018
Las Vegas, Nevada (October 18, 2018) - Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.
October 19, 2018
Las Vegas, Nevada (October 18, 2018) - Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.
October 19, 2018
Late yesterday, one of the many investigations into Ryan Zinke by the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General resulted in a report faulting Zinke and his wife for violating policies and abusing the taxpayer’s dime to fund their lavish lifestyle.
October 18, 2018
GAINESVILLE, FL -- On Thursday, October 18, the City Commission of Gainesville unanimously passed a resolution committing the city to be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity and net zero greenhouse gas emissions community-wide by 2045. The resolution can be found here.
October 18, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, in one of the many investigations into Ryan Zinke, the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General faulted Zinke and his wife for violating policies in abusing the taxpayer’s dime to fund their preferred lifestyle.
October 18, 2018
Washington, DC -- On Tuesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Dominion Energy approval to begin chopping down trees for a super-polluting fracked gas compressor station, despite Virginia not having approved permits for the project. Dominion has planned to construct the compressor station in the Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, which is predominantly African American, and is necessary in its plans to construct the much maligned fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
October 18, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, Ryan Zinke’s Department of the Interior denied multiple reports that a Trump political appointee will soon leave the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and take over as the head inspector general (IG) overseeing investigations into the Secretary, claiming that an email send by HUD Secretary Ben Carson was false.
October 18, 2018
AUSTIN, Tex. - On Thursday morning, in a 9 -1 vote, Austin City Council approved a Austin Energy utility-scale solar contract for a 144 MW solar power plant to be located southeast of Pflugerville. When the project is completed in 2020, along with additional contracted solar and wind projects, the utility will have nearly 940 MWs of utility-scale solar under contract and will generate more than 52 percent of all energy demand from renewable energy sources.
October 18, 2018
RALEIGH, NC – On Monday, October 15, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted to commit to transition county operations to 100 percent clean and renewable energy countywide by 2050.
The resolution can be viewed here.