23 de febrero de 2022
El Servicio postal finalizó hoy su controversial plan de adquirir vehículos de combustión interna para el 90% de su parque móvil, una afronta directa a los compromisos climáticos de la administración Biden.
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February 22, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA -- As the Senate returns from recess, the Sierra Club is making it clear this is a make-or-break moment for taking on the climate, economic, and health threats that working families and communities of color face. The organization is calling for Congress to swiftly pass a bold suite of investments, building on the broad array of historic climate and social investments in the Build Back Better Act that already have agreed upon support from Senate Democrats.
February 22, 2022
DALLAS, TX - Late yesterday, Sierra Club and Downwinders at Risk Education Fund (Downwinders at Risk), represented by Earthjustice, announced their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to appropriately classify two regions of Texas as moderate ozone nonattainment areas, as is required by the Clean Air Act.
16 de febrero de 2022
Con el Senado en plena sesión, el Sierra Club declara categóricamente que este es el momento de la verdad para abordar amenazas climáticas, económicas y de salud que confrontan las familias trabajadoras y las comunidades de color.
15 de febrero de 2022
Un nuevo reporte publicado hoy por el Sierra Club identifica seis lecciones claves que debemos aprender de la Tormenta Invernal Uri de 2021, la cual causó la muerte de más de 700 personas y unos $200.000 millones en daños.
February 14, 2022
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- A new report published today by the Sierra Club identifies key lessons to be learned from 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, which left over seven hundred people dead and caused approximately $200 billion in damages.
10 de febrero de 2022
Los departamentos de Transporte y Energía del Presidente Biden anunciaron hoy un programa de $5.000 millones para construir una red de 500.000 cargadores de vehículos eléctricos en todo el país, como parte de la recientemente aprobada ley de infraestructura.
February 8, 2022
Boston, MA – The grid operator for New England, ISO-NE, has decided to delay fixing a rule that makes it harder for renewable energy projects to replace unneeded fossil fuel power plants on the grid. Last week, the grid operator, along with the region’s largest utility companies, voted to delay making the urgent reform to the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) by two more years in a move that will keep open aging fossil fuel plants that continue polluting communities across the region and unnecessarily charging customers on their bills.
8 de febrero de 2022
El Presidente Biden anunció hoy que Tritium, un fabricante australiano de cargadores de vehículos eléctricos, inaugurará su primera instalación en Lebanon, Tennessee, la cual fabricará hasta 30.000 cargadores rápidos al año y creará 500 empleos locales.
February 8, 2022
ST PAUL, MN -- Earlier today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Xcel Energy’s integrated resource plan (IRP), a long-range plan for how the utility intends to provide electricity to its ratepayers in the coming decades. In doing so, the PUC took a significant step towards a Minnesota that is powered by 100% clean and renewable energy, although there is much work that still remains to be done.
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February 1, 2022
EL PASO, TEXAS / LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO-- Recently, a coalition of environmental and community groups–including Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Chaparral Community Coalition for Health and Environment, Familias Unidas del Chamizal, Earthworks, Sunrise El Paso, and Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association–filed comments with the Texas Commission on Environment
28 de enero de 2022
La Corte de Distrito de DC invalidó anoche la decisión del Departamento del Interior (DI) de ofrecer 80 millones de acres del Golfo de México para arrendamientos petroleros y gasíferos, una victoria crucial en la defensa de las comunidades de la región y del planeta contra el empeoramiento de la crisis climática.