The Department of Energy (DOE) today radically altered its process for setting and updating national energy efficiency standards for residential and commercial appliances and equipment, making it significantly more difficult to establish future energy-saving measures and drastically reducing the potential…
The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) today issued an order, implementing the “New Efficiency: New York” plan to bolster its energy efficiency and building decarbonization goals. The programs implemented as part of the order will save more than…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he voted against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement today on the grounds that it doesn’t combat dangerous climate change.
Today, 48 craft breweries around the country submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency opposing the agency's proposal to weaken water pollution safeguards for coal-burning power plants.
Two national lighting associations have dropped their lawsuit attempting to thwart California’s updated light bulb efficiency standards, which are identical to national ones rolled back by the Trump administration last year. The California standards, which went into effect Jan. 1…
Just days after the Trump administration proposed gutting a bedrock environmental law governing infrastructure projects, a new move by a federal permitting council would extend environmental fast-tracking to the mining sector—a sweeping move that will make it easier to build…
Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today challenging the last step in the administration’s plan to allow oil drilling and fracking on more than 1 million acres of public lands and minerals in Central California.
For literally about the hundredth time, we’re suing the Trump Administration over its attacks on the environment. This time around, we’re defending California against the Administration’s plans to frack it.
With an $80 million proposed increase aimed at giving schools much needed resources to improve meal programs, Governor Newsom’s proposed 2020-21 budget offers California public school students a better chance to learn and thrive.
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has released a proposal for protecting the world’s biodiversity and ecosystems, which are experiencing dramatic declines and degradation. This draft will be key in setting targets for international action.