Next Wednesday, August 29, Native and non-Native leaders will be joined by national environmental advocates to take escalated action in the Bemidji area to urge Governor Mark Dayton to act immediately to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
BOSTON, MA -- Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced today that the City of Boston will issue a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on August 27 for submissions from consulting firms to assist the City’s development, implementation, and administration, of a municipal electricity aggregation program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen pled guilty to attempting to influence the 2016 election “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” implicating Donald Trump in a federal crime. Within minutes, Trump’s former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort was separately convicted in the Mueller investigation. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, along with Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, called for Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearing to be “immediately postponed” while the Senate Judiciary Committee investigates the charges made against Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign. Sen. Mazie Hirono and Sen. Ed Markey cancelled their scheduled interviews with Kavanaugh.
MISSOULA, Mont.— A hearing will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in U.S. District Court on a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from Yellowstone’s famed grizzly bears.
Today, the Virginia State Water Control Board allowed the controversial fracked-gas Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines to proceed with current inadequate permits.
Albany, NY-- Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that New York will join the Powering Past Coal Alliance, an international group of governments, businesses and organizations dedicating itself to ending the use of coal-fired power. Today’s announcement comes as former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy that pales in comparison to the Obama Administration’s ambitious policy to work with states to dramatically reduce carbon pollution, promote economic and environmental justice, protect public health, and remove barriers to create a national clean energy economy.
DTE symbolically breaks ground on their controversial nearly one billion dollar gas plant in East China Township. Though construction does not formally begin until 2019, DTE chose to hold a celebration on the day that opponents will be filing their opening briefs for the appeal of the Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision to approve the plant.
College Park, MD - Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy today that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis.
Pittsburgh, PA - Former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy today that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis.
Today, former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do nothing to fight the climate crisis. The Wheeler-Pruitt proposal would remove clean air safeguards that protect West Virginia's health, environment, and air.