Today, the Sierra Club issues the following regarding continued efforts by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC to sidestep a court’s order to vacate the pipeline Certificate, which would have the effect of shutting the pipeline down.
Today, the Sierra Club presented arguments to the Florida Supreme Court in a case seeking to reverse the Florida Public Service Commission’s (PSC) approval of a rate hike for Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) buildout of gas-burning peaker power plants in South Florida.
WASHINGTON, DC - Despite revelations unveiled just this morning, Senator John Barasso proceeded to call a vote on coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to be the #2 at EPA. On a party-line vote Republicans in the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee approved the nomination to go to the full Senate.
More than 240 environmental, animal welfare and conservation organizations sent a letter to House and Senate leadership today, calling on them to reject riders in 2018 Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency appropriations legislation that would erode the Endangered Species Act and other safeguards for wildlife. The letter comes as Congress is poised to pass yet another continuing resolution that could pave the way for negotiations to begin on a final omnibus appropriations bill for FY 2018. This year’s House and Senate bills currently include provisions that would strip away federal protections for wolves and several other species, choke off funding for listed species if wildlife agencies cannot complete their five-year species reviews on time and block protections for sage-grouse, among many others.
WASHINGTON, DC - In a shocking report this morning, The Intercept reveals that the coal lobbyist nominated to be #2 at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, hosted fundraisers for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairman as well as the immediate past chairman months after he was already the presumptive nominee.
On February 6, 2018, the City of Denton, TX became the second municipality in Texas and the 58th city nationwide to transition to 100% clean and renewable sources of energy.
FirstEnergy subsidiaries Monongahela Power and Potomac Edison have rejected conditions that the West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC) imposed for the transfer of the Pleasants Power Station. Additionally, the companies will not seek rehearing of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) order that rejected the transfer for not being consistent with the public interest. These decisions put into the question the fate of the coal plant, raising the possibility that it could soon retire.
LA City Council Takes Major Step Toward Electrifying Buildings LOS ANGELES, C.A. -- Today, the Los Angeles City Council voted to direct the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to establish building electrification targets in its 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The targets should align with the city’s existing greenhouse gas reduction goals of 45% and 65% reductions by 2025 and 2035. The Council motion also takes steps to identify other strategies to reduce gas consumption in buildings and to study the costs and implications of zero emission buildings.
Late Friday, the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, on behalf of a coalition of environmental and community groups, filed a reply in support of their motion for a stay of construction of the fracked gas Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
TODAY: Glendale City Council to Vote on Pausing Grayson Power Plant Expansion "Today, ahead of the Glendale City Council meeting, the Glendale Environmental coalition will call on the City Council to halt the Grayson Power Plant expansion and demand a study on clean energy alternatives to power the City of Glendale. As the state assembly revisits legislation to power all of California with 100% clean energy, this vote reinforces the momentum building for 100% renewable energy throughout the state."