March 18, 2019
Maine Legislators Propose Expanding Bear Hunting Opportunities
Legislators in Maine have proposed two bills that could expand black bear hunting in the state.
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March 15, 2019
Court Decision Could Determine Coal Power Plants’ Futures
A pending decision by the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals could lead to the premature closing of scores of coal-powered electricity plants across the country, potentially hampering the reliability of the nation’s electric power grid.
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March 12, 2019
California Judge Upholds State Protections for Gray Wolves
A California state court judge in San Diego ruled gray wolves will continue to be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act.
March 18, 2019
Legislators in Maine have proposed two bills that could expand black bear hunting in the state.
March 15, 2019
A pending decision by the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals could lead to the premature closing of scores of coal-powered electricity plants across the country, potentially hampering the reliability of the nation’s electric power grid.
March 12, 2019
A California state court judge in San Diego ruled gray wolves will continue to be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act.
March 8, 2019
A bill introduced in the Connecticut legislature would mandate climate change be taught to young children in government schools statewide.
March 7, 2019
Newly elected Democratic Gov. J. B. Pritzker of Illinois signed an executive order committing his state to join 17 other states in the United States Climate Alliance
March 6, 2019
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) efforts to streamline and reduce regulatory burdens have saved businesses and consumers billions of dollars while continuing to protect public health and safety and improving environmental outcomes.
March 5, 2019
Xcel Energy, one of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities, has committed to producing 100 percent carbon-dioxide-free electricity in its eight-state Western and Midwestern service area by 2050.
March 4, 2019
Georgetown, Texas’ plan to rely on 100 percent wind and solar power has resulted in skyrocketing electricity bills for consumers and the city’s budget suffering millions of dollars in losses in a few short years.
March 4, 2019
Democrats in Congress, are promoting a Green New Deal that would eliminate all fossil fuels in ten years, create a massive federal public works and jobs program, explicit proposals to replace market freedom and limited government with socialism.
February 27, 2019
Companion bills to ban hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, are under consideration in the Florida Legislature.
February 19, 2019
The Virginia House of Delegates rejected a bill to end the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity in the state by 2036.
February 18, 2019
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has determined Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) imposed by the Obama administration in 2011, were not “appropriate and necessary.”
February 15, 2019
Delegates to the recent U.N. climate conference in Katowice, Poland added provisions to the Paris climate treaty asking countries to submit “transparency reports” on their contributions to climate change and report “loss and damage” due to climate change.
February 14, 2019
President Donald Trump was right to announce the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, but he should go farther.
February 14, 2019
The 24th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended after two weeks of negotiations with very little to show for the efforts of the thousands of participants.
February 13, 2019
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has set a goal that 100 percent of the electricity used in the state come from renewable power sources by 2040.
February 12, 2019
Colorado's Supreme Court rejected a lower court's decision that the state's oil and gas regulator must give greater protection to public health or environmental protection when permitting new oil and gas development.
February 11, 2019
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed significantly loosening the standards limiting carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fueled power plants.
February 7, 2019
Restore Louisiana, a state program funded through the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, is offering pay up to $200,000 to purchase homes from people living in areas that have been repeatedly flooded.
February 5, 2019
The San Juan-Chama Project, which diverts Colorado River basin water to the Rio Grande basin, now supplies the Albuquerque metro area with nearly 70 percent of its potable water and has helped the aquifer to recover.
February 4, 2019
A federal judge has barred the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing in U.S. territorial waters off the coast of California.
January 31, 2019
California has become the first state to mandate all new homes have sufficient solar panels to power them with solar energy.
January 30, 2019
Portfolio managers to invest their clients money based on sustainable investment criteria may cost their clients money and be violating their fiduciary duties.
January 29, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court declined, without comment, to consider an appeal from Osage Wind LLC of an appeals court decision granting the Osage Nation the right to seek damages from the operators of an 8,400-acre wind farm in Osage County, Oklahoma.
January 28, 2019
The Trump administration rescinded the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 “Waters of the United States” rule.
January 25, 2019
Ryan Zinke stepped down as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) at the end of 2018.
January 25, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is pushing legislation she calls a “Green New Deal (GND),” to eliminate the United States’ use of fossil fuels and replace them with select renewable sources of energy.
January 25, 2019
A federal appeals court affirmed a ruling granting the companies building the NEXUS natural gas pipeline in Ohio and Michigan eminent domain authority for a right of way to build the pipeline across private property.
January 25, 2019
The Green New Deal proposes a massive expansion in the use of renewable energy technologies that rely on critical minerals we are not allowed to mine in the United States.
January 24, 2019
Inaction by California utility regulators may have contributed California’s deadly wildfire season in 2018.
January 23, 2019
The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Permian Basin in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, contains much more oil and gas than government and industry experts previously estimated.
January 14, 2019
The federal production tax credit for wind energy producers has cost the U.S. government billions of dollars in revenues while benefiting just a few large corporations, says a new study by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
January 11, 2019
Voters in Colorado overwhelmingly rejected a ballot initiative that would have prevented new oil and gas development on approximately 85 percent of the nonfederal land in the state.
January 10, 2019
State law preempts Oklahoma counties from unilaterally restricting energy development, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled.
January 8, 2019
A large number of Republican members of the Congressional Climate Solutions Caucus lost their seats in the November midterm elections.
January 7, 2019
North Carolina voters passed a ballot initiative establishing hunting and fishing as rights protected in the state’s constitution.
January 3, 2019
Arizona voters rejected a ballot initiative which would have required utilities to use renewable sources to produce at least 50 percent of the electricity in the state by 2030, “irrespective of the cost to customers.”
January 2, 2019
A significant error led researchers to issue a correction to estimates of global ocean warming published in the journal Nature.
December 31, 2018
A $44 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project planned by the state of Alaska to sell natural gas to Asian markets could be upended by November’s election of Mike Dunleavy as the state’s new governor.
December 27, 2018
The Heartland Institute hosted an event in Katowice, Poland discussing the latest research on climate science and the high costs of government efforts to fight purported anthropogenic climate change.
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