TX/LA Coast - Today, Department of Energy’s (DOE) officials convened a listening session in Lake Charles, Louisiana, closing out the DOE’s second stop on its “Energy Justice to the People Roadshow” that included Lake Charles and Port Arthur. Yesterday, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm joined a listening session in Port Arthur, Texas. The DOE describes this Roadshow as a series of stakeholder dialogues aimed at engaging local residents, municipal governments, and fossil fuel industry representatives in conversations ranging from funding opportunities for frontline commu
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, in a 50-49 vote, the Senate confirmed Dale E. Ho as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, one of the most populated and racially diverse regions in the entire country. A well-known public interest attorney with profound experience at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU, Dale Ho has spent his career defending the freedom to vote and fundamental liberties for all Americans. To date, the Senate has confirmed over 130 of President Biden’s well-qualified judicial nominees.
Washington, D.C. – Today, EPA published notice of a proposed consent decree requiring the agency to review and, if appropriate, revise Clean Air Act standards that protect people and communities from dangerous pollution emitted by new gas-burning power plants.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An overwhelming majority of scientific experts on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) recommended on Friday that EPA substantially strengthen the national standards for ozone, a harmful pollutant and a main component of smog.
Baton Rouge, LA – At the end of May, Cleco filed the final draft of its long-range energy plan with the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC). The utility’s preferred plan continues to prioritize the installation of unproven carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) for its Madison Unit 3 coal facility.
As insurers abandon communities facing rising climate threats from the Gulf Coast to California, fears of an uninsurability crisis in the US are growing.
BOSTON, MA. – On Tuesday June 6, nine influential state environmental groups hosted a well-attended legislative briefing covering bills that, if passed, will establish a moratorium on new, large gas infrastructure and a climate change superfund of $75 billion over 25 years from profits of Massachusetts’ big corporate polluters.
Washington, DC – Earlier this week, the chief economist of the AFL-CIO and former chair of the economics department at Howard University, assistant secretary for the Department of Labor, and advisor for Congress and the Federal Reserve, William Spriggs passed away.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Black voters in Allen v. Milligan, holding that Alabama’s racially gerrymandered 2021 voting map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which prohibits voting rules that result in the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race.