Today, Boulder County, the City of Boulder, and San Miguel County filed a lawsuit in Colorado state court to require oil companies Exxon and Suncor to help pay for the heavy costs incurred by these governments to respond to and prepare for the effects of climate change.
Las Vegas, NV-- Tomorrow, the Forest Service will host a hearing on their “Focused Management Plan for Lovell Canyon” focusing on important conservation questions like the landscape’s recreation opportunities, maintenance requirements and preservation for future generations.
Monday afternoon, public health and environmental advocates from across Illinois rallied outside Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) before offering public comments to the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB). Monday’s hearing was the third session where impacted communities have turned out in opposition to proposed changes in state air pollution rules. Up until now, those rules have protected the public against dangerous air pollution. Proposed changes would allow Dynegy-Vistra to keep cheap, dirty plants open while closing cleaner ones, nullifying the Rauner administration’s claim that the move is to “keep plants open” and save jobs. Dynegy has repeatedly pled poverty as a reason for these changes, yet, just this week, they closed on a merger worth $20 billion with Vistra, a Texas-based corporation.
Tonight is the last public hearing before Wyoming Commission votes on extreme trophy hunt.
Tonight is the last public hearing before Wyoming Commission votes on extreme trophy hunt.
Scott Pruitt’s ability to constantly embarrass Donald Trump will seemingly never end. Yesterday, news broke that Pruitt is no longer just violating a litany of ethical norms, but also federal law. This has led to not only Republican Congressman and Chair of the House Oversight Committee Trey Gowdy condemning him, but now Republican Senator and Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee John Barrasso criticizing Pruitt’s actions as well.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club, the Council of Canadians, and Greenpeace Mexico released a new report, NAFTA 2.0: For People Or Polluters? In the trinational report, leading economists from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico present original research on the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) obstacles to climate progress and quantify the climate pollution locked in by the controversial trade deal. As talks to renegotiate NAFTA intensify, the report reveals how the Trump administration’s NAFTA 2.0 agenda poses even greater climate threats. In contrast, the report lays out a new proposal for a climate-friendly NAFTA replacement.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With talk of trade wars and NAFTA’s renegotiation intensifying, the Sierra Club worked with economists from the United States, Canada, and Mexico and will launch a new report that presents original research quantifying NAFTA’s climate impacts and exposing the climate threats hidden in Trump’s plans for the deal. Coinciding with the release of the report, NAFTA 2.0: For People Or Polluters? on Tuesday, April 17, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and the report’s authors will reveal the climate pollution locked in by NAFTA, lay out proposals for a climate-friendly NAFTA replacement, and expose new climate hazards hidden in Trump's NAFTA 2.0 agenda.
US commercial banks are gearing up for their annual general meetings, starting as early as this week, but they’re not alone in making plans for AGM season. A growing number of concerned communities and organizations are planning a series of interventions at this year's bank shareholder meetings to pressure the banks to stop financing controversial oil and gas infrastructure projects.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Government Accountability Office, a government watchdog agency, announced that Scott Pruitt violated federal law by spending more than $43,000 to install a private phone booth in his office, according to a report obtained by ABC News.