WASHINGTON D.C.-- Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote on whether to advance the nomination of a coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, to take over the #2 position at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump’s nominee for the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, has withdrawn her name for consideration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump Administration released a Nuclear Posture review that seeks to expand the circumstances in which the United States will use nuclear weapons.
Today, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis released a new study which found that the coal industry continued to shrink in 2017, despite Donald Trump’s rhetoric during Tuesday’s State of the Union address and his continued efforts to undermine America’s fast growing clean energy economy.
53 local Boards of Health across Massachusetts today urged Governor Charlie Baker to require comprehensive health impact assessments for any new gas infrastructure, to measure the effects on the climate and human health.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Earthjustice, representing the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit today to compel the agency to comply with public records laws after extensive delays in providing the public with information it is legally entitled to.
The New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee voted unanimously to deny the application for the Northern Pass electricity transmission project today. The Eversource owned project would have transmitted hydroelectric power from Quebec into New England.
Washington, DC -- Late yesterday, the Department of the Interior announced that it is attempting to significantly limit legally mandated environmental reviews of fossil fuel operations on public lands. The plans call to limit reviews to six months and shrinks protests over leases from a month to only 10 days. The plan also calls for the Bureau of Land Management to offer all eligible leases for lease quarterly, and for the bureau to no longer draft five-year plans for onshore fossil fuel operations.
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- More than four months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico, the island is continuing to try and recover. As it does, significant questions have been raised surrounding the future of the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the independent commission charged with its oversight. PREPA is one of the largest public power utilities in the United States, meaning that it is owned and operated by an agency of the Puerto Rican government.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its U.S. Wind Industry Fourth Quarter 2017 Market Report yesterday, which found that Oklahoma has surpassed Iowa as the state with the second highest wind energy capacity. Despite wind energy’s increasing success in Oklahoma, the state’s former attorney general and the current U.S.