July 31, 2024
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Press Releases
August 1, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Environmental groups filed a lawsuit today renewing their challenge to Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
August 5, 2024
BROOKFIELD, CT. – Compressor stations maintain the flow and pressure of fracked gas transported in pipelines. Due to serious health and safety risks, experts recommend compressors stay at least 1.8 miles away from occupied buildings. A new report by Thimble Creek Research and Eco Essential Solutions, prepared for Sierra Club Connecticut, reveals the dangers posed by the proposed expansion of a compressor station in Brookfield located within 1,900 feet of a local middle school and within a mile of 800 residential buildings.
August 2, 2024
LOS ANGELES – The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) voted unanimously today to adopt a Railyard Indirect Source Rule (ISR), a measure aimed at reducing harmful pollution from trains, trucks, cargo handling equipment, transport refrigeration units and railyards in Southern California. The vote delivers a major victory for clean air advocates.
August 1, 2024
BOSTON, MA. – Today, the State Legislature ended the 2023-2024 session without the passage of a climate omnibus bill, S.2838 An Act Upgrading the Grid and Protecting Ratepayers. Negotiations fell apart when the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives could not reconcile an abridged bill that would expedite siting and permitting issues for companies building electrical infrastructure. House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka made inflammatory public statements yesterday, blaming each other for waiting until the last month of a two year legislative cycle.
August 1, 2024
Sutherland, NEBRASKA – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) that will require the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) to install a scrubber on its Gerald Gentleman Station coal plant in order to address the plant’s major contributions to haze pollution.
August 1, 2024
The Sierra Club Military Outdoors campaign released a report surveying the military community’s experiences with the outdoors, including a set of recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Task Force on Outdoor Recreation for Veterans to improve outdoor accessibility for the veteran and the military community. The report was developed in partnership with the University of Kentucky’s Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky.
July 31, 2024
Today, the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, dubbed the “Dirty Deal,” sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso. The legislation would open up federal lands and waters to more leasing and drilling and unnecessarily rush the review of proposed gas export projects, forcing decisions to be based on flawed, outdated studies.
July 31, 2024
Today, a coalition of environmental organizations and an impacted landowner backed by eight state Attorneys General and the New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate won their challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of the Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project, which would allow a massive and unneeded expansion of gas capacity into New Jersey.
July 31, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated, or invalidated, a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that allowed the construction of the Regional Energy Access Expansion project to expand the Transco pipeline to bring additional fracked gas from Pennsylvania to, primarily, New Jersey and Maryland.