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October 20, 2022

Kansas City, MO – Community leaders gathered today in the Indian Mound Neighborhood and called on Evergy’s CEO, David Campbell, to close its Hawthorn coal-burning power plant by 2025. Hawthorn is one of the last coal plants that operates within a major city in the United States and was the backdrop for the press conference. 

October 19, 2022

Topeka, KS – Two months have passed since a coalition of organizations elevated the need for Evergy’s energy effic

October 17, 2022

Phoenix, AZ – In a new version of Sierra Club’s groundbreaking report, the Dirty Truth About Climate Pledges, Arizona utilities Salt River Project (SRP), Tucson Electric Power (TEP), and Arizona Public Service (APS) earned poor grades for the way the utilities have delayed the transition to clean energy from coal and gas that poisons the air, threatening the public health of communities, and exacerbating the climate crisis. 

October 15, 2022

Milwaukee, WI – We Energies, one of the largest utility companies in Wisconsin, has requested a massive increase in its electricity and gas rates to the Public Service Commission (PSC), a government branch which must approve its plan for rate increase.

October 4, 2022

Salt Lake City, UT – In a new version of Sierra Club’s groundbreaking report, the Dirty Truth About Climate Pledges, PacifiCorp has earned a D grade for the way the utility has delayed the transition to clean energy from coal and gas that poisons the air, threatening the public health of communities, and exacerbating the climate crisis.

October 4, 2022

ATLANTA, GA - Yesterday, the Sierra Club released the

October 3, 2022

TEMPE, AZ. -- On Monday morning, local community members and clean energy advocates came together at Salt River Project (SRP) Headquarters to push back on the harm that the utility has caused by propping up fossil gas, and to

October 3, 2022

BEAUMONT, TX. - Entergy Texas, a utility company headquartered in the Woodlands, received an “F” for its lack of plans to transition to clean energy in a new report by Sierra Club.

October 3, 2022

Madison, WI – The Sierra Club released today the second edition of its ground-breaking report, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, that exposes how most major electric utilities greenwash their climate action c

October 3, 2022

Des Moines, IA – The Sierra Club released today the second edition of its ground-breaking report, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledge

October 3, 2022

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October 3, 2022

Despite public claims that Duke Energy is taking bold action to address the climate crisis, it remains one of the country’s biggest and dirtiest companies, with plans to build out more methane-spewing gas than any other U.S. utility, according to a wide-ranging analysis by the Sierra Club.