The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is now required to fully fund the worker retention and community impact mitigation programs and to require electricity providers to submit integrated resource plans that avoid a spike in greenhouse gas emissions when the…
A year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has an opportunity to remake its entire energy infrastructure. The island should prioritize resiliency and clean distributed energy as the way forward.
American Electric Power (AEP) filed an amended Long-Term Forecast Report today at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), the first step in demonstrating the need for at least 900 Megawatts of new renewable energy, which would more than double…
The nation needs to break the habit of simply responding to natural disasters by throwing massive amounts of money and effort at them after-the-fact. And the nation needs a Federal Emergency Management Agency that can better support communities' efforts to…
Business, health, and government leaders from around the country and around the world gathered last week to step up their fight against the harms of climate change. It's time for President Trump to do the same.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management today is expected to finalize its rollback of commonsense protections that stop the unnecessary leaking of climate-fueling and health-harming air pollution from oil and gas operations on America’s public lands. This would be the latest in a series of attempts by the oil and…
In San Francisco, leaders made unprecedented commitments to fighting global climate change, invigorating the movement, and sending a strong signal to President Trump that, despite his efforts, he won’t stop our progress.
Now, groundwater and surface water across Virginia continue to be at risk from massive pipeline construction that is moving forward under permits that lack adequate protections for water quality or quantity. DEQ can and should act to enforce Virginia water…
