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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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Hyderabad Promotes Cool Roofs to Protect Citizens from Extreme Heat

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HYDERABAD, INDIA (Mar. 22, 2017) –Faced with increasingly high summer temperatures, the city of Hyderabad is promoting a common sense strategy known as “cool roofs” to better shield its residents from the dangers of severe heat, and also save energy…

Pruitt Emails Demonstrate Cozy Ties to Polluters

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WASHINGTON – The Oklahoma state attorney general’s office released emails this week, as required by a state court, shedding light on the relationship between industry and Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, while he served…

Senate Should Reject ‘Polluter’ Cabinet Nominees Zinke and Perry

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WASHINGTON (Jan. 31, 2017) – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted today to approve the nominations of Rep. Ryan Zinke for Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and former Texas Governor Rick Perry for Secretary of…

EPA Maintains Strong Clean Car Standards

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WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced today it is keeping in place the clean car pollution standards it set in 2012 for automobile model years 2022 to 2025.

New York’s Troubled Indian Point Nuclear Plant to Close

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NEW YORK (Jan. 9, 2016) --The troubled and aging Indian Point nuclear power plant located 24 miles north of New York City will be shuttered by April 2021 under a negotiated agreement announced today by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The plan…

Illinois General Assembly Passes Essential Clean Energy Bill

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SPRINGFIELD, IL – After more than a year of intensive stakeholder negotiations, the Illinois General Assembly passed a sweeping energy bill today. The Future Energy Jobs Bill contains essential changes to the state’s stalled renewable energy policies and significantly increases…