25 de abril de 2022
El Sierra Club lanza su primer calculador bilingüe que permite a consumidores latinos calcular el impacto energético en sus hogares. El calculador bilingüe está disponible para el celular y la computadora.
Press Releases
April 25, 2022
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA -- Today, a coalition of environmental groups including the National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, and several other signees, published an open letter addressed to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) asking the agency to strengthen its regional haze plan to protect air quality in the state. The letter, including all signees, can be found here.
April 22, 2022
OLYMPIA, WA — The Washington State Building Code Council voted 11-3 today to adopt a new statewide commercial and multifamily building energy code that will be the strongest, most climate-friendly in the country by driving the transition to clean electricity for space and water heating. This major win for clean energy coincides with President Joe Biden’s Earth Day Seattle visit where he discussed the infrastructure bill and clean energy.
22 de abril de 2022
El Presidente Biden, en medio de llamados en todo el país para actuar audazmente contra la crisis climática por medio de decisiones legislativas y ejecutivas, emitió hoy una orden ejecutiva sobre bosques y otras soluciones basadas en la naturaleza.
April 22, 2022
Today, as calls continue to mount demanding bold climate action through legislation and administrative action, President Biden issued an executive order on climate forests and nature-based solutions. The order, which was detailed in a speech celebrating Earth Day, launches a process to define and inventory old and mature forests on federal lands, so that policies are enacted to conserve them, and initiates a nature-based solution assessment to understand nature capital and ecosystems to help in the preservation and conservation of natural places.
April 22, 2022
Harrisburg, P.A. - This morning, the regulation known as the CO2 Budget Trading Program, which allows Pennsylvania to link to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) went into effect via publication in the online version of the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Under the new rule, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fueled power plants in Pennsylvania will be capped at 78 million tons per year initially, and the cap will decrease by over 3% per year. This is the first time that Pennsylvania has limited greenhouse gas emissions in any sector of the economy.
April 21, 2022
Today, President Joe Biden will issue an executive order that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change.
April 21, 2022
Boston – Today, 11 New England clean energy and consumer advocacy organizations filed a protest urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reject ISO New England’s proposal to delay reforming the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) and require an immediate fix to this anti-competitive rule.
April 21, 2022
Washington, DC – Today, in a 4 to 1 vote, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) put forth a new proposal to improve the transmission planning and cost allocation requirements, critical steps to unleashing clean energy, improving the resilience of the power grid, and saving consumers money. FERC will be accepting comments on the proposal 75 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.
April 21, 2022
For the first time, the six biggest US banks – Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs – are all facing votes on shareholder resolutions pushing them to end their support for new fossil fuel development.