April 22, 2018
A crowd of activists will rally Wednesday outside of a meeting of Bank of America’s shareholders and executives to call on the Charlotte-based bank to drop its financing of dirty and destructive fossil fuel projects.
Press Releases
April 21, 2018
Washington, DC — A coalition of food safety and environmental groups delivered 219,210 public comments to EPA today, urging the agency to ban neonicotinoid pesticides, which is a leading cause of pollinator decline.
April 20, 2018
ALBANY, NY (April 19, 2018)—Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced a strong energy efficiency target for New York through 2025. The state’s new efficiency goal equates to saving the energy used by 1.8 million homes, and will deliver nearly one third of the state’s broader Greenhouse Gas Reduction target. The Governor’s initiative aims to “deliver benefits to New York consumers through new building retrofits, efficient appliances, and innovative technologies like heat pumps.”
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- To top off an already bad week filled with broken laws, even more federal investigations, and overwhelming Republican criticism, today it was revealed that Scott Pruitt attempted to waste even more taxpayer money on frivolous expenditures, including a key card swipe system on the doors to the waiting area outside his office; having an EPA staffer hand-deliver daily news clips to his home each evening; and a proposal to rent a second condo in his lobbyist’s building so that his security detail did not have to park on the street overnight.
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Scott Pruitt’s EPA submitted a controversial proposal to the White House aimed at requiring all scientific studies the EPA uses for setting safeguards to be peer-reviewed and make their raw data publicly available.
April 20, 2018
Air quality in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area is among the worst in the nation, according to the American Lung Association State of the Air 2018 report released on Wednesday. The American Lung Association gave Pittsburgh an “F” grade for ozone and particle pollution and ranked the city 8th for annual particle pollution in the country, highlighting the need for Pittsburgh to transition off of dirty fuels towards 100 percent clean and renewable energy.
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, announced that in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, they will no longer finance new tar sands oil projects, new offshore oil and gas projects in the Arctic, and most coal projects globally, with the exception of coal projects in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam up until the end of 2023.
April 20, 2018
Watts Clean Energy and Air Committee to Host Earth Day Celebration Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, the Watts Clean Energy and Air Committee will host their inaugural Earth Day Celebration at St. John’s United Methodist Church. The centerpiece of the event will be the groundbreaking of the MegaWatts Solar Project, a 6 kilowatt solar installation that is the first phase of a larger project to bring solar power to the community.
April 20, 2018
Southern Company's plan proposes a long-term phase out of coal, but primarily pivots to fracked gas instead of fully transitioning to clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
April 20, 2018
As catalogued in reporting from the New York Times, the dam of defense from Republican Senators of embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is breaking wide open.
Here are the latest remarks from Republican Senators:
Senator Bill Cassidy: “The ethical lapses associated with Scott Pruitt are troublesome. It will be the President’s call. He let Price go.”