The Lansing Board of Water and Light (LBWL) announced plans to build a $500 million fracked gas plant in Delta Township. Plans for new construction have been in the works since 2015, but leads to raised bills and long term investment on fossil fuel.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to public reports, the Trump administration will drop climate change from a list of global threats in a new National Security Strategy (NSS) to be unveiled Monday. Under the previous administration's NSS, the climate crisis was identified as among the most serious threats facing the nation.
A new report demonstrates that two power plants operated by Entergy, the largest utility in Arkansas, are emitting enough pollution to make the unhealthy ozone smog problems worse in the St. Louis area. The report shows that smog-forming emissions from the Entergy White Bluff and Independence coal plants are elevating ozone levels by more than 4 times the amount public health agencies qualify as significant amount. Moreover, the plants are significantly impacting St. Louis ozone levels around 22 days per summer. These dangerous emissions of smog causing Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) could be reduced by 98% or more by installing Selective Catalytic Reduction, a widely used pollution control that has been around for more than 20 years.
Oklahoma City, OK -- This year, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has given a lot to families across the country and in his home state of Oklahoma: dirty air, polluted water, and toxins like mercury and chlorpyrifos. And, every time he’s attacked a clean air or clean water safeguard, it’s been a huge gift to the corporate polluters he works so closely with who have given so much money to his campaigns and political efforts.
This is more smoke and mirrors than an actual commitment to get off dirty fossil fuels, reduce climate pollution and meet our state’s climate goals. Puget Sound Energy is likely to exceed this commitment under the status quo, as previous commitments to retire some of its dirty coal plants go ahead in the coming years.
A group of clean air and parks conservation advocacy groups today challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan to allow polluters to increase health and visibility-harming pollution in court.
St. Petersburg, FL - Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is poised to vote for the Republicans tax cut bill for the wealthy and corporations--a plan which will create conditions for the elimination of a wide range of public benefit programs--in exchange for a small increase in the child tax credit.
Entergy wants New Orleans’ residents and businesses to pay for the company to build a costly, unnecessary and dirty gas power plant
Protect the Arctic Refuge. The message illuminated Trump International Hotel sending a hard to miss directive to Republican leaders in Washington, D.C. currently rushing through the tax scheme. The plan seeks to offset tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate polluters with revenue from drilling in the Arctic Refuge’s coastal plain-- an area vital for the survival of the Gwich’in Nation, and one of the country’s last remaining wild places.
Washington, DC -- Today, Mother Jones reported that Scott Pruitt has wasted $120,000 of taxpayer funds on a political political consulting firm. The funds went to Republican political consultant Matt Rhoades, Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager, firm Definers Corp.