WASHINGTON – More than 100 members of the House of Representatives announced a bill today to restore federal protections for rivers, wetlands, streams and other essential water bodies. The Clean Water Act of 2023 would reinstate safeguards the Supreme Court dismantled…
To help address the climate crisis, the United States needs to build approximately 564 gigawatts of renewable electricity and storage by 2035. To seize this opportunity, we’re all going to have to work together, and last week, key utility-scale solar…
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The Wildcat Loadout expansion could load 100,000 barrels of oil per day onto trains traveling beside the Colorado River and destined for Gulf Coast Refineries.
Today the Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled the recipients of its much-awaited hydrogen hubs program (H2Hubs). After receiving nearly 80 concept papers, President Biden and the DOE announced that the $7 billion funding stream created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law…
The Biden administration’s new National Climate Resilience Framework will help the federal government align decision-making and investments with the need to adapt to climate change.
Governor Newsom approves new law that will prepare the electrical grid and reduce the time needed to energize EV charging stations and electrify buildings.
With the support of Governor Newsom and persistence from the state legislature, California has passed AB 363, which bans over the counter sales of lawn and garden neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides by 2025, limiting their use to trained professionals. The bill…
It’s time for Youngkin to stand in court and explain himself for attacking state climate law. It won’t be easy for him to evade his constitutional responsibility.
The state should work to expand the existing law for testing for lead in school drinking water by requiring the use of filters and testing the remaining schools and family childcare homes.
Michigan lawmakers approve Filter First bills providing the nation’s strongest protections against lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers.
In a strong move to hold oil companies responsible for the economic and public health dangers of oil wells left idle and unplugged, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1167, the “Orphan Well Prevention Act,” into law. This bill, authored…
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