Washington, DC -- Today, the Department of Interior announced that it will move on Monday to take the first step towards re-doing its five-year offshore drilling plan, with the goal of expanding drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and to include parts of the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Arctic.
The current plan was finalized by the Obama administration just seven months ago, after a multi-year process during which millions of Americans weighed in.
Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump gave a speech that was intended to cap off what he his White House has dubbed “Energy Week,” though the majority of the week has been spent on health care and the president’s sexist Twitter attacks.
EDMONDS, WA. - The Edmonds City Council on Tuesday approved a resolution establishing a community-wide goal of transitioning to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2025.
Edmonds represents the first city or town in Washington state to commit to 100 percent renewable energy and the 37th city in the United States to make such a commitment.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has rejected PennEast Pipeline’s application for water permits. This is a major setback as DEP has informed PennEast that they do not have enough information to evaluate land use permits and their application is deficient. On April 26th, DEP gave PennEast 30 days to address the outstanding issues or they would reject the application as incomplete.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Jeffrey Bossert Clark, an attorney with the law firm that represented BP during the litigation following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD). If confirmed, Clark would lead DOJ's enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA—Today, in the Florida Supreme Court, the Sierra Club appealed the Public Service Commission’s decision to force FPL customers to pay for the utility’s aggressive expansion of fracked gas infrastructure, despite failing to prove it’s necessary.
Norfolk, NE -- Today, Nebraska landowners and other pipeline opponents attended the third of three public hearings held by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to voice their serious concerns about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The House Natural Resources Committee today passed several bills out of committee, including the King Cove Land Exchange Act, H.R. 218, and the Resilient Federal Forest Act, H.R. 2936. Both bills would damage the environment and undermine longstanding environmental safeguards.
In response Athan Manuel, director of public lands policy for the Sierra Club issued the following statement.
NEW YORK CITY-- The nine Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states hosted the next in a series of stakeholder meetings today in their 2016-2017 RGGI program review to establish limits on carbon pollution emissions from the region’s electric sector between 2020 and 2030. During today’s meeting state officials reviewed modeling of policy scenarios to be considered in the program review, with the hopes of deciding on a scenario in the coming months.