Ahead of COP27 next week, I'm advising that Sierra Club President Ramon Cruz, Sierra Club International Climate and Policy Director Cherelle Blazer, Sierra Club Director of Policy, Advocacy, and Legal Leslie Fields, and Sierra Club International Climate Policy Advisor Steve Herz will be in Sharm El-Sheikh and available for interview.
NEW YORK — Ahead of COP 27, a new report by the Sierra Club’s Fossil-Free Finance campaign analyzes the financial sector’s net-zero emissions pledges two years in the making, revealing that the commitments and actions from the 6 biggest US banks fall far short of what’s needed to meet global climate goals. Read the report: https://sc.org/bank-progress
El Presidente Biden dijo anoche en un discurso que está dispuesto a trabajar con el Congreso para promulgar un impuesto a las ganancias de las compañÃas petroleras y gaseras.
HARTFORD CT. -- Today, community members, climate justice activists and environmental organizations rallied outside the Capitol District Energy Center (CDECCA) in Hartford. The crowd urged Governor Lamont, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and Department of Administrative Services to replace the 30 year old CDECCA fossil fuel plant with a 100 percent clean and renewable alternative.
President Biden said in a speech that he was willing to work with Congress to enact a windfall profits tax on oil and gas companies. Oil and gas prices have hit record highs this year, as fossil fuel executives have used their profits to enrich shareholders and investors rather than easing the pain for consumers.
INDIANAPOLIS — AES Indiana, formerly Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL), today released its plan for how the utility will generate electricity for its customers over the next two decades with a proposal to convert the Petersburg Super Polluter to burn gas instead of coal.
Sierra Club calls on GFANZ to stay committed to robust, science-aligned policies after initiative drops requirement for its members to follow Race to Zero’s criteria
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) and it underscores how critical the clean energy transition is for global security and energy price stability. The report finds that the global energy crisis, spurred in large part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been felt hardest by low-income communities, but is blunted in regions with a strong commitment to renewable sources of energy.
SALTON SEA, CA — In response to comments by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) regarding Colorado River negotiations and federal funding of remediation projects at California’s Salton Sea, the Salton Sea Partnership (Alianza of Coachella Valley, Audubon California, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, Pacific Institute and Sierra Club) issued the following statement:
Groups are urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to take long overdue action in response to a petition for rulemaking regarding liquefied methane gas (LNG) export policy filed by the groups in 2013. The original petition points to the fact that DOE has never specifically articulated a policy for reviewing LNG export applications. Without such a policy, DOE has failed to weigh the environmental and public health impacts of increased fracked gas production for export, nor adequately consider the economic impacts on American consumers who face higher energy prices in the face of increased exports of that gas overseas.