coal

July 17, 2018

Long Island City, N.Y. -- Local residents and various health leaders and religious and environmental organizations gathered on Wednesday to urge the administration to quickly finalize a proposed plan that would phase coal out of the state by 2020. Advocates contend that a statewide framework must include a glidepath for communities and workers affected by this transition and to ensure full retirement of the affected plants - barring the way for these plants to burn other dirty energy sources like fracked gas, waste or biomass.

July 16, 2018

Albany, NY. -- Elected officials and various local organizations gathered on Monday to urge the administration to quickly finalize a proposed plan that would phase coal out of the state by 2020. Advocates contend that a statewide framework must include a glidepath for communities and workers affected by this transition and to ensure full retirement of the affected plants - barring the way for these plants to burn other dirty energy sources like fracked gas, waste or biomass.

July 10, 2018

WASHINGTON DC-- District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh, the Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Environment, introduced a comprehensive climate protection and clean energy package today.

July 10, 2018

BOSTON-- The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change hosted a briefing today to discuss the findings of The Applied Economics Clinic and Sustainable Energy Advantage report which focuses on the impacts of the major electric sector provisions in the 2018 Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future bill which passed the Massachusetts Senate unanimously last month.

June 29, 2018

WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places announced its decision to restore the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain labor conflict to the National Register, protecting the site from mountaintop removal by the coal industry. This decision follows years of legal action brought by a coalition of environmental and historic preservation groups including Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Friends of Blair Mountain, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the West Virginia Labor History Association, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

June 28, 2018

Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner (FERC) Robert Powelson announced his resignation to become CEO of the National Association of Water Companies.

June 28, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 28, 2018 –  Electric vehicle charging stations in every neighborhood. Cleaner air for our children and the elderly. Modern roadways. Communities built for walking and biking. A vision of the future that voters across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions can embrace. Ratcheting down air pollution and relieving snarled traffic, with modern, efficient, and visionary solutions that ensure people and products can get where they need.

June 22, 2018

State regulators today approved a $14 mandatory monthly rate hike for Duke Energy Carolinas’ customers and will force them to shoulder millions in costs for the utility’s statewide toxic coal ash cleanup.

June 18, 2018

TALLAHASSEE, FLA—The Sierra Club and allies filed comments opposing the air permit for a fracked gas plant at TECO’s Big Bend Power Station, near Tampa, because the permit neglects critical public health safeguards and fails to evaluate, much less mitigate, the plant's contribution to climate damage over its proposed 30-year lifespan.

June 18, 2018

The Sierra Club and Ohio Environmental Council formally requested that the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement take immediate action to address widespread violations of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (“SMCRA”) in Ohio.

June 15, 2018

Diné (Navajo) community organizations Black Mesa Water Coalition, DinĂ© CARE, and TĂł NizhĂłni ÁnĂ­, supported by the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit seeking a plan for reclaiming the 44,000-acre Kayenta Coal Mine located on the Navajo Nation. The mine is the exclusive provider of coal for the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), which is retiring on December 22, 2019 in favor of cheaper sources of power.

June 14, 2018

The Massachusetts Senate today voted to approve “An Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future”, which includes numerous provisions to help Massachusetts residents, businesses and governments reduce the use of fossil fuels.