Rollback Will Make Americans Sicker, Raise Costs for Families WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Lee Zeldin will finalize a federal regulation that would obliterate the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles. As a part of the Trump administration’s wholesale attack on the EPA’s … [continued]
Washington, DC — Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen at a White House, Donald Trump … [continued]
As noted earlier today, Donald Trump is continuously engaging in assaults on US human health due to Trump’s incessant push for fossil fuels and against cleantech. The policies go beyond normal subsidies. Trump and his team are basically forcing the use of old coal power plants. And that will come … [continued]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation announced a new proposal to repeal an existing waiver and dramatically raise the domestic content requirement for electric vehicle charging stations–from 55 to 100 percent–for federal-aid highway projects, including the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program (NEVI). NEVI is a $5 billion federal … [continued]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Sierra Club appealed the EPA’s approval of South Carolina’s do-nothing plan to reduce air pollution at our country’s most wild and scenic national parks and wilderness areas. The Congressionally-approved Regional Haze program of the Clean Air Act is intended to reduce air pollution, including from coal … [continued]
Continuing the theme of complete idiocy and mass human harm, the Donald Trump administration is on the verge of making climate change denialism US national policy. Why? Because we are apparently a petrolstate being run by a mixture of Homer Simpson and Mr. Burns. Steve Hanley will write a much … [continued]
US President Donald Trump swept back into office on a mission to stop the domestic offshore wind industry in its tracks. That is actually something any idiot could accomplish with the swipe of a pen. All you need to do is yank the federal leases that offshore developers depend on, … [continued]
Public Health Cannot Wait Almost Three Years Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency gave a group of polluters a 33-month extension to clean up coal ash dump sites. This is twice as long an extension as what the EPA had proposed last year. According to the Sierra Club’s Trump Coal Pollution Dashboard, … [continued]
One of the first things Donald Trump did when he got into office (the second time) was try to stop funding for and development of cleantech. Honestly, it’s one of the most ridiculous things one could imagine a president focusing on, but then again, that list is long with this … [continued]
A new, 3-D printed, reusable sponge-like cartridge can soak up critical minerals from domestic mining, industrial, and electronic waste.
