Companies are pumping oil out of the ground every day in Los Angeles, exposing nearby residents to a toxic cocktail of health-threatening emissions. Safeguards for communities at the city, state, and federal levels have lagged far behind where they should…
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt might have hoped he could get by with one hearing on repealing the Clean Power Plan in coal country, that he'd get an outpouring of public support for rolling back climate protections, and that he could…
The California Public Utilities Commission has unanimously approved 15 utility pilot programs with a collective budget of $43 million to “accelerate widespread transportation electrification,” as required by a landmark clean energy bill adopted in 2015.
EPA’s latest annual assessment of new automobile fuel economy shows that automakers have made great progress building fuel-efficient vehicles when fuel economy standards are tightened.
The historic proposal to retire and replace California’s last remaining nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, was mostly rejected today in a final decision unanimously adopted by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which removed critical elements protecting the climate, plant…
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today rejected much of an historic joint proposal to retire and replace the state’s last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, with lower-cost, pollution-free alternatives, instead removing critical elements to protect the climate, plant workers, and…
The House's $81 billion hurricane disaster aid package includes some poison pills that would harm disaster mitigation programs and endangered species. The Senate should reject these in it's aid package.
If you thought 2017 seemed like a monstrous year for extreme weather events—from horrible hurricanes, to a seemingly endless western wildfire season, to drought, powerful wind storms, extreme rainfall, and flooding—you were right.
Once the flames have been extinguished, forest fires have a second opportunity to devastate landscapes through flooding, mudslides, and water pollution.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has rejected U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry’s transparent attempt to needlessly funnel billions of electricity customer dollars to the owners of old and expensive coal and nuclear plants. In a major…
In the latest chapter on neurotoxic manganese threatening a Chicago residential community, recently revealed inspection reports show that the City of Chicago and EPA inspectors uncovered alarming problems with industrial dust pollution this past fall, at yet another facility handling…
The Energy Efficiency for All coalition marks 5 clean energy milestones that have resulted in more than $1 billion in new investment in low-income communities in California.
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