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NEW REPORT: Clean Energy Legislation Will Lower Energy Costs and Bring Billions in Federal Investment to Michigan
New Modeling Shows How Michigan Can Secure Billions of Federal Dollars, Lower Household Energy Costs, and Create Jobs Detroit, MI — Today, 5 Lakes Energy released “The Michigan Clean Energy Framework,” a new independent modeling report. For the first time, new modeling details the potential impact of enacting significant new...
NEW REPORT: How Rural Electric Co-ops Can Repower America with the Inflation Reduction Act
Today, Evergreen Action released a new report detailing how rural electric cooperatives can take advantage of six new major federal funding opportunities to cut costs for their members, reduce climate pollution, and benefit their bottom line.
Evergreen Drives Over 94,000 Public Comments Supporting EPA’s Carbon Standards
29 climate advocacy groups call on EPA to strengthen its carbon standards before finalization.
Major Utility Company Breaks with Industry Lobbyists, Supports EPA Carbon Standards
Third-Largest Utility in U.S. Submits Statement in Support of EPA Standards, While Edison Electric Institute Comes Under Increased Pressure Today, shortly after Evergreen Action called on utilities to publicly oppose an industry interest group effort to undermine U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) carbon standards, Constellation Energy—the third-largest energy producer in...
NEW POLL: A Majority of Voters Support EPA’s Proposed Carbon Standards
Polling released just before key deadline for EPA’s proposed power sector pollution rules.
Climate Groups Call On Power Companies to Reject EEI’s Extreme Position on EPA Carbon Standards
Evergreen Action and 28 other climate advocacy groups sent a letter to the CEOs of EEI's member companies, calling on them to clarify their stance on their trade organization’s extreme opposition to EPA’s proposed carbon standards.
Biden Admin’s NEPA Rule Takes a Step Forward on Environmental Justice, But Still Needs Improvement
Now more than ever, we need to rapidly build out a just, clean energy economy at a pace that confronts the most existential threat of our time.
FERC Takes Action That Will Help Accelerate Thousands of Clean Energy Projects
We can’t meet our climate and clean energy goals unless clean energy projects can come online, and today FERC took decisive action to help accelerate thousands of clean energy projects.
Evergreen Action Statement on EPW Clean Trains Hearing
America’s rail barons have been making billions in profits while their decades-old engines spew pollution into Black and Brown communities.
Biden Admin Moves Oil & Gas Rule Forward, But Misses Opportunity On Climate
Big Oil has benefited from handouts and de facto government subsidies for decades.