Letter to New York State Public Service Commission, Department of Environmental Conservation, governor, and Research and Development Authority. New York Independent System Operator’s (NYISO) failure to prepare New York’s grid for a clean energy future inhibits climate progress, fails to prioritize affordability, and harms New Yorkers’ health and pocketbooks. This letter urges the critically evaluation of NYISO’s statements and history of inaction in the wake of the misleading NYISO Power Trends summary report and press release and to consider next steps to reduce these obstacles.
Air Products is in pursuit of an Army Corps Clean Water Act 404 permit and Louisiana Coastal Use Permit that would allow for the construction of a carbon sequestration facility. If Air Products gets the permits, it will be authorized to build a 24-inch pipeline that would carry pressurized carbon dioxide from its proposed plant to wells beneath Lake Maurepas. Construction would impact water quality and harm aquatic life and could negatively affect home values and businesses that thrive off the current uses of the lake.
Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.
Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan for a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.