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Youth Activists Push Hawai’i To Accelerate Net Zero Transportation Policies

June 24, 2024 admin clean transport, earthjustice, green economy, Hawaii, our children's trust, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:58:34 +0000

Our Children’s Trust is back in the news after the resolution of a climate suit in Hawai’i. The organization is comprised of attorneys who are bringing legal actions against states and the federal government in an attempt to force them to address the crisis of a warming planet in an … [continued]

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Senate Confirms McNamee as FERC Commissioner

December 6, 2018 admin Coal, earthjustice, ferc, Gas, Legal & Regulatory, Legislative, mcconnell, mcnamee, murkowski, news, Nuclear, renewable energy, Renewables, schumer, Trump

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:35:28 +0000

The U.S. Senate on a 50-49 party-line vote December 6 confirmed Bernard McNamee to a seat on the five-member Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission (FERC), despite questions about his independence from the Trump administration and his previous comments in support of a bailout of coal and nuclear U.S. power plants at the expense of renewable […]

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Enviros Dispute State Findings on Coal Ash Spill

October 8, 2018 admin Business, Coal, coal ash, duke energy, earthjustice, environmentalists, hurricane florence, Legal & Regulatory, news, Safety, sutton power plant, Water, waterkeeper alliance

Environmental officials in North Carolina say their tests show that coal ash released from Duke Energy’s Sutton power plant in Wilmington during flooding from Hurricane Florence has not had a negative impact on the Cape Fear River. The state’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) on October 4 said its test results on water samples collected […]

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