February 14, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Environment and Public Works committee today is scheduled to hold a hearing on ‘modernizing’ the Endangered Species Act.
Press Releases
February 13, 2017
OAKLAND, Calif.-- Pueblo, Colorado, and Moab, Utah, this week became the 22nd and 23rd cities in the United States to commit to transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy.
February 13, 2017
Moab, Utah – Moab, Utah became the 23rd community in the United States to commit to 100 percent clean, renewable energy on Tuesday.
February 12, 2017
PUEBLO, Colo. – The Pueblo City Council on Monday approved a resolution committing the city to transition entirely to clean, renewable energy by 2035. Pueblo represents the third city in Colorado and 22nd city in the nation commit to 100% clean, renewable energy.
February 12, 2017
PAGE, ARIZONA - The largest coal plant in the West is buckling to market forces as the private utility owners plan to exit at the end of 2019. Despite the massive scale of the Navajo Generating Station, the high cost of mining and transporting coal to the high desert can no longer compete with alternatives on the open market.
February 12, 2017
Boston, MA – A rally is being held tomorrow, Valentine’s Day, at 8 a.m. outside the Region One Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office in downtown Boston (5 Post Office Square) to show support for EPA employees charged with protecting human health and the environment, including the air, water, and land.
February 9, 2017
Albany, NY -- Today, Governor Cuomo announced $3 million in funding for municipalities and electricity cooperatives to purchase electric vehicles for their municipal fleets. The funding is part of the New York Power Authority’s Municipal Electric-Drive Vehicle Program, which provides financial assistance for the purchase of electric vehicles and hybrids to facilitate the replacement of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
February 7, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as Attorney General. In 1986, Sessions was deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge.
February 7, 2017
WASHINGTON DC – The states participating in the 2016-17 Program Review of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) hosted the first meeting of the year today to determine the future course of carbon pollution reductions in the region. Representatives from the nine participating states, and key stakeholder groups, discussed the latest assumptions for modeling of scenarios for reducing carbon pollution limits 2.5 to 3.5 percent annually from 2020 to 2030, along with other changes to the program’s structure.
February 6, 2017
Today, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to issue a stay of the US Environmental Protection Agency's final "regional haze" plan for Arkansas. This action threatens the implementation of a clean air protection that was years in the making and risks slowing progress on cleaning up the air in important Arkansas parks and wilderness areas.