July 31, 2017
SEATTLE - Olympia mayor Cheryl Selby pledged her support for moving the city of Olympia to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2035.
Press Releases
July 31, 2017
Washington, DC -- Last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered Scott Pruitt’s EPA to enforce safeguards limiting methane pollution from new oil and gas operations.
July 31, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C.— The Sierra Club on Monday filed a petition to intervene in Duke Energy Progress’ request to raise customers’ bills by 16.7 percent, or about $17.80 per month for the average residential monthly bill.
Duke is seeking approval from the North Carolina Utilities Commission of a $477.5 million increase in the amount the utility can collect from ratepayers each year.
July 30, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7/31/2017
Sierra Club Statement on Abandonment of Nuclear Plant in South Carolina
Sierra Club has opposed the dangerous V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant
since the beginning of the project
July 30, 2017
**This statement was released in conjunction with a press conference today at the National Press Club. Videos of the conference can be found on the Illinois Chapter of Sierra Club’s Facebook Page and Clean Water Action’s Facebook Page**
July 26, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Sierra Club today joined the This Land is Our Land March through Salt Lake City in support of public lands. The huge crowd was a visible demonstration of the powerful connection between booming outdoor recreation and the public lands and clean air that support it.
In response, Marc Thomas, Utah Sierra Club Chapter Chair issued the following statement.
July 27, 2017
ATLANTA, GA.—The Coosa River Basin Initiative’s executive director will be in the nation’s capital on Monday to give formal testimony against the EPA’s push to delay making polluters comply with federal water protection rules.
July 26, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Tonight, the House approved an appropriations “minibus” that includes $1.6 billion in funding to support construction of Trump’s border wall while gutting funding for clean energy and undermining clean water protections. The proposed budget is slated to cut $1 billion in clean energy measures, limit the federal government’s ability to prevent water pollution and direct hard-earned taxpayer dollars toward an inhumane and anti-environmental political agenda.
July 26, 2017
LOS ANGELES -- Today, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) voted to transition its fleet of over 2,200 buses to zero emission electric buses by 2030. Metro has long been a leader in adopting cleaner fuels for its bus fleet and today the agency made the next critical move from still-polluting fossil fuel, gas buses to new, clean electric powered buses.
July 26, 2017
Harrisburg -- Today, the Pennsylvania State Senate passed a Tax Code, House Bill 542, which limits the Constitutionally-directed rights of the Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate and regulate air and water pollution. This language, buried in the state’s budget, would establish a new, legislatively-appointed review board that has primary authority to disallow air permitting controls for the unconventional gas industry.