Sen. Martin Heinrich and expert panel conclude that we need to transition to...
Environment America and U.S. PIRG hosted a webinar Wednesday, which featured opening words from Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and a panel of home electrification experts discussing the benefits...
View ArticleStatement: Maryland PIRG, Environment Maryland applaud passage of public...
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Senate voted 32-15 on Monday night to pass the Climate Solutions Now Act that will improve the state’s current goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from 40% of 2006...
View ArticleNew report outlines how electric school buses could speed transition to clean...
U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group are releasing a new report examining how the transition to electric school buses, in addition to keeping...
View ArticleStatement: Weatherization funding takes advantage of the ‘cleanest energy’
President Joe Biden and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on Wednesday $3.16 billion in new funding through the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) for residential energy upgrades.
View ArticleStatement: Fully restored Clean Car Standards will help reduce long-term oil...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) finalized on Friday its fuel economy rule. The revised federal Clean Car Standards will make future cars more efficient and drive innovation...
View ArticleStatement: Clean schools program means cleaner, healthier future
Vice President Kamala Harris will announce on Monday a clean schools infrastructure program, which features grant funding for public school energy upgrades, money for electric school buses, and...
View ArticleStatement: New IPCC climate solutions report calls for an end to fossil fuels
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday a new report on climate solutions and mitigation.
View ArticleStatement: Senate committee OKs bill to save America’s wildlife
“This bipartisan bill will put real money into the hands of state wildlife agencies, ensuring that wildlife action plans are put into action and not just a PDF on someone’s computer."
View ArticleStatement: Biden restores robust public and environmental review for...
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday stronger public and environmental review requirements under a bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The move reversed a...
View ArticleBaltimore falls behind peers in solar power ranking report
Baltimore lagged behind other major U.S. cities in solar power installations over the last two years according to the eighth edition of Environment Maryland Research & Policy Center’s report...
View ArticleStatement: $6 billion in subsidies for distressed nuclear plants are misguided
Tapping into $6 billion in subsidies passed as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Department of Energy launched a program on Tuesday to bail out the owners and operators of money-losing...
View ArticleStatement: Biden administration announces $6.4 billion program to reduce...
The United States Department of Transportation announced on Thursday a new program to spend $6.4 billion over the next five years to reduce climate emissions from the nation’s transportation sector.
View ArticleUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst commits to 100 percent renewable energy
The University of Massachusetts added to the Earth Day festivities Friday when Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy announced that the state’s flagship public university will power its campus entirely with...
View ArticleOn Earth Day, Environment Maryland endorses Brooke Lierman for Comptroller
Baltimore – Environment Maryland today announced its endorsement of Brooke Lierman for Maryland Comptroller.
View ArticleConservation Groups Welcome Biden Order on Climate Forests
On Friday, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be...
View ArticleFlorida Gov. DeSantis’s veto saves rooftop solar in Sunshine State
Exercising his first veto of the 2022 legislative session, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday vetoed HB 741, a bill that would have gutted net metering in Florida. Net metering is the policy which...
View ArticleStatement: Biden-Harris administration advances offshore wind leasing on...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published Wednesday two separate Calls for Information and Nominations for suitable areas for possible offshore...
View ArticleStatement: States sue to stop misguided USPS plan to spend billions on gas...
Attorneys general from 16 states,the District of Columbia and environmental groups sued the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday to halt purchases of thousands of gas-powered trucks that only get 8.6 ils...
View ArticleStatement: PFAS Firefighter Protection Act takes on dangerous ‘forever...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Rep. Dan Kildee (MI-5) introduced the PFAS Firefighter Protection Act into the Senate and the House this week. The bill aims to ban firefighting foams made with a class...
View ArticleStatement: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation opens applications for...
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Biden administration announced on Wednesday a request for proposals for a grant program aimed at funding critical conservation and recreation projects...
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