April 12, 2023
Annual report details massive bank support for climate-destroying corporations
Press Releases
April 12, 2023
St. Louis, MO – Today, the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Ameren Missouri, unanimously approved the utility’s proposal to build and own a 150 megawatt solar farm in White County, Illinois. That is enough clean energy to power about 16,000 homes. Sierra Club intervened before the PSC in support of the Boomtown Solar Project.
April 12, 2023
On Tuesday, officials advised residents to evacuate their homes due to a significant industrial fire in Richmond, Indiana.
April 12, 2023
On Monday the Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and dozens of Texas residents urged the EPA to stop an East Texas coal plant from continuing to dump toxic coal ash in an unsafe pond that leaks into groundwater.
April 12, 2023
New letter urges the Biden Administration to oppose the Japan-led G7 efforts to support expansion of new Liquefied Natural Gas supplies.
April 12, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to strengthen federal clean car standards, which will cut emissions from the transportation sector and help protect our health and our climate. The EPA also announced a proposal to strengthen federal standards that would help clean up pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses.
April 11, 2023
Media Briefing for Reporters Ahead of Annual General Meetings
April 11, 2023
PHOENIX – Today, Tribal Nations in Arizona announced a new federal effort to protect the greater Grand Canyon area.
April 11, 2023
WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced a proposal to update a two-decade-old calculation that determines the equivalent fuel economy of electric vehicles, calling the formula outdated and reducing it by more than 70 percent. The proposed rule is being published in the Federal Register today. The Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) petitioned the DOE in 2021 to update the calculation, which hasn’t been updated since 2000.
April 10, 2023
Today, environmental organizations filed a petition for review in federal court challenging a recently issued new biological opinion (BiOp) and incidental take statement under the Endangered Species Act for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.