Press Releases

September 20, 2024

Senators Martin Heinrich and John Boozman today introduced the Every Kid Outdoors Extension Act. The Every Kid Outdoors program, which began in 2015, grants all fourth graders free access to federal public lands, waters, and shores.

September 20, 2024

BISMARCK, N.D.—Community, Tribal and environmental groups today filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit from the states of North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which creates a framework for the agency to manage 245 million acres for conservati

September 19, 2024

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — An imminent decision could fast-track the reopening of the same pipeline that caused the devastating 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill. Sable Offshore Corporation, a publicly-traded Houston start-up company (NYSE:SOC), wants to restart this risky pipeline to resume pumping oil from three offshore oil platforms to processing facilities in Santa Barbara.

September 19, 2024

Milwaukee, WISCONSIN – Sierra Club’s newest report, Demanding Better, details pathways and policies from new large load customers like data centers, such as Microsoft’s, to meet the increased demand for electricity while decreasing climate pollution.

September 19, 2024

Utah – On Wednesday, September 18, 2024, clean air advocates gathered at the Utah State Capitol, for a powerful “filibuster,” reading aloud from 6,000 public comments submitted to the EPA. The comments called for stronger pollution controls for Utah’s worst coal polluters – the Hunter and Huntington coal plants.

September 18, 2024

Washington, D.C. – After two decades of staying relatively flat, states throughout the country are seeing sharp increases in demand for electricity. This demand is driven in large part by new data center load growth due to generative artificial intelligence, technology manufacturers, and electrifying industries. As a consequence, utilities with growing demand projections have proposed extending obsolete and dirty coal plant operations or building new gas plants, putting climate goals at risk.

September 17, 2024

Washington, DC — Today, six major environmental, climate, clean energy, and conservation groups, including the Sierra Club, Clean Energy for America, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Action, League of Conservation Voters (LCV), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Action Fund, and The Wilderness Society Action Fund, announced their respective member mobilization efforts to recruit volunteers to reach voters across the country to get out the vote in the final weeks of the 2024 political cycle and help elect pro-environment candidates up and down the ballot includi

September 18, 2024

— More than 80 conservation groups representing millions of Americans

September 18, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a proposed rulemaking that will help boost the investments in public and residential electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Treasury’s guidance makes the credit available to two-thirds of the U.S. population, covering many low-income and rural communities.

September 18, 2024

Washington, D.C. – Gains in clean energy and emissions reductions are being stunted by the increasing demand for electricity from data centers, electrifying vehicles and industries, and reshoring manufacturing. Utilities are extending the life of obsolete and dirty coal plants and proposing new gas-burning plants, putting climate targets at risk.