BOSTON--The Massachusetts House and Senate Conference Committee released a compromise energy bill tonight that includes the following provisions: boosts the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) annual increase to 2 percent from the current 1 percent starting in 2020, but declines back to 1 percent in 2030; authorizes 1,000 megawatt hours of energy storage and 1,600 megawatts of offshore wind; and expands energy efficiency offerings within the MassSave program.
Despite acknowledging the severe climate threat posed by burning fossil fuels, an administrative law judge recommended today to allow FPL to expand its fracked gas-burning operations in Dania Beach
Today, Donald Trump’s State Department released a draft Environmental Assessment of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline’s route through Nebraska.
This weekend, a representative from the BLM’s Alaska office told Alaska Public Media that, though they haven’t even done an environmental assessment of the impacts of seismic testing in the Arctic Refuge yet, they’ve already decided to issue a draft finding of “no significant impact” and allow the destructive seismic testing to move forward.
Today, Mexico proposed a set of standards that, if fully implemented, would cut methane pollution from the Mexican oil and gas sector by nearly half. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is currently working to roll back two Obama-era safeguards that would protect our air, climate, and communities from harmful methane emissions released by this sector.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit dealt another blow to the floundering Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), handing down a decision that rescinds permission for all pipeline-related activities in the Jefferson National Forest
BOSTON--The Massachusetts House and Senate Conference Committee finalized an Environmental Bond Bill last night that did not include language banning single use plastic bags. Such language had been included in the Senate version of the bond bill.
DETROIT, MI - Today, The Michigan Sierra Club Independent Action PAC announced a new six-figure mail campaign in support of progressive candidate Gretchen Whitmer’s campaign in the Democratic primary for Governor of Michigan.
Washington, DC-- Today, the House passed a FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In conference, lawmakers successfully stripped a number of harmful provisions from the bill that would have threatened protections for public lands, forests and imperiled wildlife-- but the version still includes a rider that significantly undermines the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).
In response, Jordan Giaconia, federal policy associate at Sierra Club issued the following statement:
Washington, DC -- Tonight, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler reversed course and withdrew EPA’s No Action Assurance on the glider truck rule. Agreeing with environmental groups’ and states’ claims in the challenges filed last week in the D. C.