In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic and national health emergency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) conditionally approved the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline today. The approval is conditioned on Pembina, the Canadian fossil fuel corporation behind the project, qualifying for critical permits from the state of Oregon, three of which have already been denied or withdrawn.
ST. LOUIS - The Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an order today that will keep fixed rates flat and increase funding for low-income assistance programs. By improving Ameren’s long-term planning, it also sets the stage to increase investments in clean energy that make it easier to retire uneconomic coal plants that cost families more on bills.
The electricity grid operator PJM’s capacity market has been overcharging tens of millions of customers to prop up unneeded dirty power plants, a new analysis has found.
Conservation, environmental and landowners groups argued in federal court in Montana today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of a permit authorizing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to be constructed through hundreds of rivers, streams, and wetlands failed to evaluate the project’s impacts, in violation of bedrock U.S. environmental laws.
Detroit, Mich. -- Today, after several years of advocacy, Sierra Club, NRDC, National Housing Trust and DTE Energy reached a landmark agreement that will bring significant energy efficiency upgrades to utility customers in danger of having their power shut off.
Today, the Sierra Club appealed the Georgia Public Service Commission's decision to award Georgia Power $525 million to clean up decades-worth of coal ash contamination.
A federal appeals court today ruled that the U.S. Forest Service broke the law by failing to consider an alternative that would protect the Gunnison National Forest’s Pilot Knob area from coal mining. The decision by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directs the lower court to vacate an exception that allowed the Forest Service to approve coal mining in roadless forests in the Gunnison River’s North Fork.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union, Sierra Club, and Southern Border Communities Coalition today filed a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s transfer of an additional $3.8 billion in military funds for border wall construction. Congress did not authorize the funds.
In a monumental victory for both public advocacy groups and local farmers, a California court today ruled that a Kern County oil and gas ordinance paid for and drafted by the oil industry violated the state’s foundational environmental law.
WASHINGTON— A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect northern long-eared bats as threatened rather than endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today rejected the request from low-income residents, shrimpers, environmental groups, local cities and landowners to reverse its approval of the Rio Grande LNG fracked gas facility proposed for a site along the Gulf Coast near Brownsville. The move by FERC demonstrates that the agency has dismissed the groups’ justifiable concerns about elevated pollution and potentially devastating damage to the local tourism and fishing industries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Documents released by the Environmental Protection Agency in response to a lawsuit by the Sierra Club reveal that there was no factual basis for Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s false public claim that “most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.” Wheeler, a coal lobbyist prior to being chosen by Donald Trump to be the nation’s top environmental officer, made the false claim in 2019 during his first nationally televised network interview with CBS News.