US greenlights major transmission line for renewable energy in Western states
The Bureau of Land Management has approved nearly three dozen renewable energy and grid improvement projects since 2021.
By Associated Press - May 21, 2023Environment
The organization Climate Power found the GOP's Limit, Save, Grow Act would slash funding for clean energy projects that are projected to create tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2023House Republicans are threatening a catastrophic debt default if they don't get to make major cuts to historic climate change investments.
By Josh Israel - April 21, 2023The order will create a White House Office for Environmental Justice and require several federal agencies to take steps to protect Americans from the effects of pollution.
By Associated Press - April 21, 2023The EPA projects that carbon emissions would be reduced by 10 billion tons if the proposal is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - April 18, 2023Virginia Republicans want to decimate laws promoting clean energy and curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
By Josh Israel - April 18, 2023The new funds are part of President Joe Biden’s plan to switch to renewable sources of energy as climate change intensifies.
By Associated Press - April 09, 2023The Union of Concerned Scientists calls wind ‘one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity.’
By Josh Israel - March 29, 2023The Republican governor opposed the law that Gevo, Inc., credits for supporting its production of sustainable aviation fuel.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2023Fossil fuel companies have thrown their support behind the Lower Energy Costs Act.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2023President Biden ‘vetoed the bill because it jeopardizes the hard-earned life savings of cops, firefighters, teachers, and other workers,’ said the White House.
By Associated Press - March 21, 2023Republicans in Congress want to repeal investments in climate change infrastructure, weaken environmental laws, and reprioritize fossil fuels.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2023The state Legislature should serve all Wisconsinites by supporting key programs in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget.
By TAI Contributor - March 10, 2023Wisconsin will receive $250 million, funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, over five years to replace lead service lines.
By Oliver Willis - March 06, 2023Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are requesting the EPA provide information so they can ensure that a grant program isn’t ‘a $100 million slush fund for far-left organizations.’
By Oliver Willis - February 28, 2023Republican lawmakers are lying about an Energy Department plan to require new gas stoves to be energy-efficient.
By Josh Israel - February 28, 2023Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2023Arkansas Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman has voted against the environment 96% of the time, according to the League of Conservation Voters.
By Josh Israel - January 12, 2023USPS will increase the number of electric-powered trucks in its fleet and, starting in 2026, only purchase electric vehicles.
By Associated Press - December 24, 2022The president has centered fusion, along with already viable clean energy sources such as wind and solar power, in his plan to get the United States to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
By Nick Vachon - December 14, 2022The Biden administration continues investing in production of electric vehicle parts within the United States, and this time it includes a plant of newly unionized workers in Ohio.
By Oliver Willis - December 13, 2022A former Congressman that is being charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to help the Venezuelan government under Nicolas Maduro had contact with multiple congressional Republicans and members of the Trump administration.
By Associated Press - December 07, 2022A new report published by the Pew Research Center says the religiously unaffiliated are much more likely to say that climate change is an extreme or very serious problem.
By Associated Press - November 26, 2022Former President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled EPA regulations, postponed meaningful progress on emissions reduction and mainstreamed climate denial.
By Adrian Cole - November 17, 2022Democrat Summer Lee beat Republican Mike Doyle to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District.
By Nick Vachon - November 10, 2022The Biden administration has allocated more than $5.8 billion in federal funds to historically Black colleges and universities since 2021.
By Oliver Willis - November 08, 2022Studies show minority communities suffer disproportionately high negative effects from air pollution.
By Oliver Willis - November 07, 2022Washington Republican Senate nominee Tiffany Smiley avoids questions on how to deal with climate change that is already affecting her state.
By Josh Israel - November 04, 2022New York Republican Mike Lawler is pushing for more fossil fuel production in the face of climate change.
By Josh Israel - October 31, 2022Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Florida Power and Light allies to the utility oversight commission, which later approved the company’s rate hike.
By Adrian Cole - October 28, 2022ExxonMobil is one of several American oil companies reporting billions in profits in recent months while gas prices skyrocketed.
By Oliver Willis - October 28, 2022