BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial held in Turin, Italy released its final text on Tuesday with all seven member states committing to phase out domestic coal power generation before 2035 - marking an unprecedented commitment from the United States and Japan, the only outlying G7 countri  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- Ceres, a non-profit organization that is mobilizing many of the world's largest companies and investors to take stronger action on climate change, water scarcity and other global sustainability challenges, issued the following news release: Ceres launched a new sustainability assessment tool designed to help small to medium-sized companies assess and improve their sustainability performance. Developed by Ceres in-house experts, the Ceres Roadmap 360- equips busi  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following statement on April 30, 2024: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced today two sales for offshore wind that would generate 18 gigawatts of energy combined, enough to power six million homes. One of those sales is in the Gulf of Maine, including south of Maine's coast and east of Cape Cod. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) released the following statement in response. "If properly sited, the Gulf  more

PORTLAND, Maine, May 1 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, the Department of Interior (DOI) proposed a pair of wind energy auctions in the Gulf of Maine and Oregon. Accounting for 15 GW of the potential 18 GW generated from the two sales, the proposed Gulf of Maine auction includes eight lease areas off the shore of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The nearly 1 million acres up for auction could generate enough clean wind energy to power more t  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 1 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: * * * Data Show Need for Updated Pollution Rules, Curbing Corporate Power * * * Tyson Foods meat and poultry processing plants released more than 371.1 million pounds of pollutants into local waterways across the country between 2018 and 2022, according to an analysis released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). It found that over half of the pollut  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 (TNSres) -- The Unitarian Universalist Association issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: What does shared ministry look like in today's Unitarian Universalist movement? How can Unitarian Universalists (UUs) collaborate to create a liberatory faith for themselves and others? These are the fundamental questions asked by the Spring 2024 issue of UU World, which is now available at newsstands and online (https://www.uuworld.org/?_gl=1*1m7l3nx*_ga*MTY2MDQ2  more