On Friday, Sierra Club took a significant step in its ongoing effort to compel the EPA to enforce federal air quality standards set nearly a decade ago under the Obama administration by filing a lawsuit that requires EPA to recognize the failure of many states to submit compliance plans for reducing smog levels in their communities.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced another $500 million in rebates for the Clean School Bus Program, which offers funding for school districts to purchase clean school buses, install charging infrastructure, and cover workforce development.
Washington, D.C. -- Today Sierra Club, Public Justice, and several other environmental and public health organizations filed a petition for rulemaking with the EPA, calling upon the agency to stop harmful coal pollution from open-top trains carrying coal by requiring coal train operators to obtain a permit for their water pollution.
Today, the Biden Administration moved to protect fenceline communities from hazardous air pollution by proposing a policy–following a Trump Administration rollback–that ensures industrial polluters continue to limit their toxic air emissions as long as they operate.
This Thursday and Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is holding oral arguments on challenges from fossil fuel industry groups, ethanol industry groups, and Republican states on various clean car rules.
Today, EPA announced it will abandon its ongoing reconsideration of the current underprotective air quality standards for ozone and restart the rulemaking process.
Today, the Edison Electric Institute announced Trump Administration Energy Secretary and fossil fuel executive Dan Brouillette will lead the utility lobbying association.
Today, the Sierra Club and partners delivered more than one million public comments calling on the Biden Administration to tackle climate change by adopting the strongest possible carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new standards that will improve the gas mileage of cars and cut climate and air pollution from gas vehicles. Fuel economy standards from NHTSA are different from but complementary to the emission standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which sets standards that make vehicles in the US less polluting.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, EPA removed the emergency affirmative defense provisions from operating permit regulations in Title V of the Clean Air Act, closing a loophole that allowed fossil fuel power plants and industrial facilities to release unlimited amounts of dangerous air pollution during startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM) events with impunity.
WASHINGTON, DC – Over 50 local officials signed onto a letter delivered today to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the agency to protect the health of their residents and fight climate change by finalizing the strongest clean car and truck vehicle emission standards before the end of 2023.
Washington, D.C. – Today, EPA published notice of a proposed consent decree requiring the agency to review and, if appropriate, revise Clean Air Act standards that protect people and communities from dangerous pollution emitted by new gas-burning power plants.