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States Can Act Now to Create Workplace Heat Standards

BackgrounderUnited StatesJuanita Constible
There are several pathways to heat standards, which vary by the different buckets of state plan states and territories.

Trump EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi's Clean Air Plan, Preventing Utility's Own Requests to Retire Aging Oil-Burning Plants

Press ReleaseHonolulu
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rejection of Hawaiʻi's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan on Friday.

House Transportation Bill Would Stick Americans With New Fees, Higher Costs

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released legislation that would set priorities and funding for federally funded transportation over the next five years.

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Judge Restores Funds to Lower Energy Costs  

Press ReleaseUnited States
A U.S. federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stating that the EPA must restart funding to finance clean energy projects under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Burgum Halts Empire Wind Project

Press ReleaseNew York
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum put out a social media post and memo ordering a halt to construction on the Empire Wind offshore wind project.

Trump Tries to Prop up Dirty Coal Plants—Again

Press ReleaseUnited States
After trying and failing to prop up old, uneconomic, and dirty coal plants during his first term, President Trump’s administration is unveiling a new plan to try to boost coal mining and keep these aging plants from closing.

The Pulse on California’s Legislative Session

BackgrounderCaliforniaVictoria Rome

The state's environmental and climate advocates, as well our allies in the legislature, are working to advance environmental goals, protect public health, and bolster community resilience to our changing climate.

Colorado’s Opportunity to Clean Up Electricity 

BackgrounderColoradoAlana Miller

Proposed legislation in Colorado would set targets for electric utilities to reduce emissions from electricity generation through 2040, with customer protections on cost and reliability. 

Trump Slashes Help for Power, Heating Bills

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Trump administration eliminated the entire staff working on the Low Income Energy Assistance Program, according to published reports.

How Western States Can Save the Colorado River

Press ReleaseLos Angeles
A new report from the UCLA Institute of Environment & Sustainability and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) demonstrates the importance of wastewater recycling for the mitigation of the outsized and much-litigated water demands placed on Colorado River. Recycling treated wastewater…

A Good Transmission Line Is Hard to Find

BackgrounderGeorgiaJossie Steinberg, Patrick King II

The 2025 Georgia Power Integrated Resource Plan: It’s not about peanuts, but a different kind of crop. 

DOE Greenlights Dirty LNG Export Terminal

Press ReleaseLouisiana
The U.S. Department of Energy granted conditional authorization for the Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG export terminal today, granting the project conditional authority to export LNG to non-free trade agreement countries.

EPA’s Reckless Move to Halt Clean Energy Grants

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that the agency would cancel $20 billion of contracts that are poised to deliver unprecedented clean energy upgrades to homes, businesses, schools, and churches across the nation.

EPA Sides with Polluters in Stunning Surrender

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C., United States
In a stunning surrender of its mandate to protect health and the environment, the EPA announced a slew of major actions within just the last day that would leave millions of Americans with more expensive energy bills, breathing dirtier air…