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Export-Import Bank Fuels Financing for Bahrain Fossil Fuel Expansion

WASHINGTON – Today the board of directors at the United States Export-Import Bank voted to approve financing for fossil fuel expansion in Bahrain, greenlighting $500 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars. This decision, which would expand drilling for oil and gas wells, comes after resignations… Read More

Gulf, Alaska, and Environmental Groups File Motion to Intervene in Oil Industry Lawsuit Against Interior Department’s Five-Year Offshore Leasing Plan

Gulf, Alaska, and environmental groups filed a motion to intervene in an oil industry lawsuit challenging the DOI's Five-Year Program for offshore oil and gas leasing. Read More

Bears Ears National Monument Receives Unprecedented Resource Management Plan

This is an encouraging sign by the federal government on their commitment to protecting public lands and prioritizing Indigenous knowledge in those protections. Read More

Friends of the Earth groups welcome Norges Bank’s exclusion of Jardine Matheson, Astra International over environmental and biodiversity impacts

Banks and investors should follow suit and suspend financing to AAL, Astra International, and Jardine Matheson until land that was taken without consent is returned to communities. Read More

Report: Artificial Intelligence A Threat to Climate Change, Energy Usage and Disinformation

AI companies spread hype that they might save the planet, but currently they are doing just the opposite. Read More

Caving to Republicans and Big Ag, SEC Finalizes Dramatically Weakened Climate Disclosure Rule

The SEC today voted to finalize a dramatically weakened rule on climate-related financial risks, caving to Republicans and the Big Ag lobby and allowing corporations to conceal their emissions. Read More

Environmental Organizations Move to Intervene in Diablo Canyon Relicensing Process

Environmental groups today intervened and requested a hearing on PG&E’s applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which seek to relicense Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to operate for 20 more years. Read More

EPA Announces Clean Ports Program

Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced a new program to prioritize the acceleration of zero emission ports and freight infrastructure. Read More

Environmental Groups Sound Alarm on the Risk of Polluters Co-opting the Clean Hydrogen Credit

The submitted comments note the need for improved methodology to prevent harmful false solutions from being repackaged as clean hydrogen. Read More

Texas Environmental Agency Opens Pathway for Formosa Plastics Expansion

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a draft permit to construct a reservoir on the property of Formosa Plastics. Read More