An increasingly broad coalition of groups, including trade associations, public health organizations, legal experts, states and cities, and utilities, is asking the Supreme Court to uphold strong EPA authority to limit carbon pollution from power plants
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit invalidated the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approvals for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
The Sierra Club and researchers at the University of Utah have published a new study linking exposure to nature and improvements to veterans’ mental health.
Today, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved a settlement agreement between DTE, the Sierra Club, Ecology Center, Earthjustice, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), National Housing Trust, and other parties regarding DTE’s electric and gas energy efficiency plans (referred to in Michigan as “energy waste reduction”). Through the process mandated by state law, Michigan utilities must file plans to allocate resources that improve energy efficiency and reduce wasted electricity in their service territory. DTE is required to deliver customers at least 2% energy savings annually, following the outcome of their most recent Integrated Resource Plan. As Michigan’s largest utility, DTE serves millions of customers and how it funds and prioritizes energy efficiency spending has huge impacts on the communities affected.
RICHMOND -- Yesterday afternoon, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that he would withdraw his office from a lawsuit in which the Commonwealth of Virginia was previously defending life-saving climate action and clean air safeguards before the Supreme Court.
Yesterday, Sierra Club filed a petition to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny Driftwood LNG’s Title V operating permit request, which would allow it to construct and operate a massive industrial facility consisting of five fracked gas liquefaction trains and associated equipment in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Driftwood LNG is one of several large polluting facilities being approved in Southwest Louisiana that would take fracked gas from pipelines, turn it into liquid and put it on large tankers for export to the global market.
Today Representative Jamaal Bowman and Senator Ed Markey introduced the Heating and Cooling Relief Act of 2022, which would greatly expand a key utility bill assistance program and protect low-income households from losing access to electricity and other essential utilities.
Anoche, los senadores republicanos usaron la norma filibustera, una reliquia de la Era Jim Crown de supresión del voto, para bloquear la votación sobre Libertad para Votar: La Ley John Lewis.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Late yesterday evening, Republican Senators employed the filibuster, a Jim Crow-era tool, to again block a vote on the Freedom To Vote: John R. Lewis Act. Following this vote, Leader Schumer held a vote to slightly change the rules of the filibuster to allow a final vote on the bill. This vote failed when Senators Sinema and Manchin sided with Republican obstruction over protecting our right to vote and our democracy.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Biden held a press conference as the Senate has the opportunity to safeguard democracy and Americans’ right to vote and is continuing negotiations on Biden’s plan to invest in families and communities across the country, all in the face of unified Republican obstruction.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement: