Today, Sierra Club, along with HealthyGulf, filed a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers for issuing a Clean Water Act section 404 “dredge and fill” permit for the Driftwood LNG fracked gas export terminal proposed for construction in Calcasieu Parish in Southwest Louisiana.
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Yesterday, House Bill 2644 became law as part of a budget deal Governor Wolf struck with the General Assembly.
The bill aims to clean up the shipping industry, protect the health of port communities, address environmental injustice, and provide solutions to the climate crisis. If ocean shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest producer of climate pollution globally.
Anoche se reportó que el Senador Manchin ha abandonado los esfuerzos por lograr cruciales inversiones en la acción climática, energía limpia y justicia ambiental.
ATLANTA, GA -- Yesterday, the Georgia Supreme Court denied Sierra Club’s petition to review a 2019 Public Service Commission (PSC) decision that gave Georgia Power almost unlimited power to collect fees from customers for coal ash clean up, despite the utility’s prior knowledge that coal ash contaminates groundwater.
The Sierra Club applauds the Council of the District of Columbia for voting unanimously to start transitioning DC off fossil fuels and toward clean and efficient electric systems in new buildings.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Late last night, it was reported that Senator Joe Manchin is abandoning the effort to make critical investments in climate action, clean energy, and environmental justice. At a time when families are facing rising energy costs and pain at the pump, a budget reconciliation package would put money back in the pockets of the workers who are most impacted by economic inequity and the costs of climate-fueled disasters.
ARIZONA – Today the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) heard from clean air advocates calling for strengthened pollution reduction measures to restore clean skies in Arizona’s national parks like Grand Canyon, Saguaro, and Petrified Forest National Parks, and to protect vulnerable communities that often live in close proximity to polluting facilities that degrade air quality and exacerbate the climate crisis.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs tout inclusion in Banking on Climate Chaos report in response to inquiries on fossil fuel financing