President Biden visits Prince William park to talk solar, youth involvement on Earth Day
Virginia set to receive $156 million from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program
By Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury - April 23, 2024Environment
The National Environmental Policy Act ‘plays a critical role in keeping our communities and our environment healthy and safe,’ said a spokesperson for the Sierra Club.
By Oliver Willis - April 19, 2022The guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget applies to projects funded under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
By Oliver Willis - April 18, 2022The funds will be used to help pay for projects that will help tribes adapt to climate change, as well as pay for the management of ocean and coastal assets.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2022The Environmental Protection Agency would see its largest budget in 51 years if President Joe Biden’s proposed budget is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2022Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she would sign the bill, which allocates $1.7 billion toward clean water projects in the state.
By Oliver Willis - March 25, 2022Last year the Biden administration called climate change a ‘systemic risk’ to ‘American families, businesses, and the economy.’
By Oliver Willis - March 21, 2022The Biden administration says U.S. investments in domestic fertilizer production will also help address climate change.
By Oliver Willis - March 14, 2022Nearly all of Adam Laxalt’s corporate campaign donations have come from the oil and gas sector.
By Josh Israel - March 14, 2022Their false attempts to blame President Joe Biden have been widely debunked.
By Josh Israel - March 10, 2022Dozens of Republicans wanted to end the House’s business for the day instead of taking votes on critical legislation.
By Emily Singer - March 09, 2022Every Republican senator voted against President Joe Biden’s plan to invest $555 billion in clean energy and combating climate change.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2022Republican Chuck Morse suggested Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives in Congress made Vladimir Putin do it.
By Josh Israel - March 07, 2022The recently passed infrastructure law provides over $7 billion for the creation of a national electric vehicle charging network.
By Oliver Willis - March 02, 2022The Biden administration’s offshore wind lease sale is breaking records.
By Oliver Willis - February 25, 2022The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could ‘eviscerate the EPA’s ability to implement the Clean Air Act to protect our environment.’
By Sarah Lipton-Lubet - February 25, 2022Republican lawmakers are outraged that the special presidential envoy for climate said war is harmful to people and to the planet.
By Josh Israel - February 24, 2022The 211-mile project would have cut through the second-largest national park in the United States.
By Oliver Willis - February 23, 2022China currently produces 80% of all rare-earth metals sold worldwide.
By Oliver Willis - February 22, 2022Pollution cleanup in the Great Lakes is expected to accelerate dramatically, thanks to a $1 billion boost from Biden’s infrastructure plan.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2022‘America must lead the electric vehicle revolution,’ said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
By Associated Press - February 13, 2022The White House’s infrastructure plan gave states guidance to invest in eco-friendly projects.
By Oliver Willis - February 10, 2022Donald Trump repeatedly tried to end the federal program that provides energy assistance funds to people with lower incomes.
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2022The groups are mounting a campaign to pressure Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s landmark social spending plan.
By Josh Axelrod - February 03, 2022Andrónico Luksic once rented a $5.5 million home in Washington, D.C., to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while his family’s mining company lobbied the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - January 28, 2022The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.
By Oliver Willis - January 26, 2022The Trump administration held up billions of dollars in relief funds for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
By Oliver Willis - January 21, 2022Global temperatures are nearly 2 degrees warmer on average than they were 140 years ago, according to two U.S. science agencies.
By Associated Press - January 17, 2022Former President Donald Trump opposed wind power because wind turbines ‘kill’ birds — but climate change kills many more.
By Oliver Willis - January 14, 2022The Biden administration has introduced its strategy to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country in the next several years.
By Associated Press - December 22, 2021Some of the ‘West Virginia citizens’ in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce ad thanking Sen. Joe Manchin for opposing the bill are not just constituents.
By Josh Israel - December 17, 2021