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Inflation Reduction Act to bring $1.5 billion in clean energy investments to state

The Inflation Reduction Act's provision of $1.5 billion in tax credits and other clean energy boosts in Arkansas is being lauded as good both for the state’s environment and economy.
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Entergy ditches fracking plans, Sierra Club cautiously optimistic

A power plant that would be powered by fracked gas is off the table for now.
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Hooks leaving Sierra Club for Audubon Delta

Glen Hooks, the long time executive director of the Arkansas chapter of the Sierra Club, is leaving that job Nov. 12 to join Audubon Delta as a policy manager. Hooks wrote about the importance of fighting climate change on a local level for our LR2050 issue. 

Wind energy gains ground in Arkansas

One of Arkansas’s biggest utilities is delivering wind power to thousands of homes in the state, and the company says more is on the way.
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Sierra Club grades power companies: Arkansas does better than many

Arkansas power companies score reasonably well at moving to cleaner power generation, the Sierra Club says.

Trump administration to roll back clean water rules

The Trump administration announced today plans to roll black clean water rules adopted during the Obama era — a setback for the environment and a victory for big business and agriculture.
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Sierra Club argues that important data missing from new ADEQ "State of the Air" report

The Sierra Club issued a response yesterday to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality's 2017 "State of the Air" report, which was released last week.

Despite Clean Line's demise, renewable energy's rise inevitable, Ark. Sierra Club says

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced it would terminate a partnership to develop the Plains and Eastern Clean Line Project, a high-voltage transmission line that would have bisected Arkansas.
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Keep the ozone coming, Trump's EPA chief says

The polluter's friend, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, today announced a one-year delay in implementation of rules to reduce ozone pollution. The usual suspects reacted: Attorney General Leslie Rutledge for pollution and the Sierra Club against.

Healthy crowd descends on Capitol for March for Science

America has a president who believes global warming is a Chinese plot, orders an end to clean air and water rules and proposes to reduce funding for the National Institutes of Health. Unfortunately, he not alone in his disdain for science. But America — including Arkansas — is also a place where vast numbers protested this Earth Day against science-blind, profit-driven and superstitious policymaking, both in D.C. and by the Arkansas Legislature
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UPDATE: Rutledge loses another Clean Air fight; Sierra Club cheers

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has lost another court round in her fight against rules to clean up power plant emissions, though she'd indicated earlier in the day that she has not intention of dropping her fight against cleaner air.

Working to clear the air

At the Arkansas chapter of the Sierra Club.
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