STATEMENT: Federal Transit Administration awards $316 million to modernize passenger ferries
Funds will go to modernization, electrification, and rural routes
Media Statements
EPA sets limits for toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water
The EPA finalized six limits on PFAS chemicals in drinking water and released $1 billion in bipartisan infrastructure law funding to address PFAS contamination.
Statement: New clean car standards are a win for consumers, health
Pollution limits among the strongest in the world
Statement: Biden administration reins in deadly air pollution
New limits on soot will save thousands of lives
Refrigerator standards set to cut energy waste
New efficiency rules will take effect 2029
Biden administration announces plan to protect old-growth forests
Most U.S. old-growth forests have been logged, many of oldest remaining trees open to logging
Statement: Fed govt. approves nation’s largest wind farm off Virginia’s coast
The U.S. Department of the Interior approved Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project. The 176 turbines are expected to produce enough electricity to power 660,000 homes.
STATEMENT: President Biden protects Grand Canyon from uranium mining
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument will protect critical watershed, wildlife habitat and cultural sites
EPA finalizes protections for Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine
The EPA released a final determination protecting wild Sockeye Salmon headwaters from a proposed gold and copper mine
Statement: Biden Administration Restores Protections To 9.2 Million Acres Of Roadless Forest
Reinstated rule for Southeast Alaska’s Tongass provides safeguards to critical wild habitat, massive carbon sink