Today, the White House Task Force on Climate, Trade, and Industrial Competitiveness announced that the Department of Energy will build rigorous, timely, and accurate statistics on the greenhouse gas intensity of certain energy-intensive industrial products. The data will then be used to develop a greenhouse gas intensity measurement tool that would be adopted here and abroad.
The Department of the Interior announced today $254.68 million in grants to communities through the National Park Service’s Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal judge approved a motion by conservation groups to join in the defense of a Biden administration rule that makes it easier for individuals and community organizations to report problems related to coal mining directly to federal regulators. Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Kentucky Resources Council, filed a motion on Sept.
Washington, DC – CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of unions, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community groups, raised concerns about the contract between the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) and Polar Semiconductor company of Bloomington, MN.
HARTFORD, CT. – Today, a group of Connecticut’s climate and energy justice organizations rallied at the State Capitol in opposition to gas expansion and Enbridge’s proposed Project Maple. Together, the groups hand-delivered a letter signed by 30 state and local elected officials to the offices of Governor Ned Lamont and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Commissioner Katie Dykes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging. A 90-day public comment period on the agency’s National Old Growth Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) ended Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, a coalition of non-profit environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, and San Francisco Baykeeper, filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil (“Exxon”), the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers.
NEW YORK, NY – As Climate Week kicks off in New York City, the private equity firm Blackstone has ignored calls to retire America’s deadliest coal plant – the Gavin coal plant – and instead is working to pass off their responsibility to Energy Capital Partners (ECP) with no plans to retire the plant or fix its outdated pollution controls.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which outlines how the federal utility aims to generate electricity for its 10 million customers over the next 25 years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marks the closing of a public comment period seeking input on a proposed plan that could protect the last remaining old-growth trees in the United States.