St. Louis, MO -- A broad coalition of organizations are uniting to oppose Ameren Missouri’s proposed $299 million rate increase for its customers, thousands of whom continue to struggle during the COVID-19 pandemic as the monopoly electric utility’s stock price and shareholder dividends soar. Ameren Missouri’s request for a rate increase with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC), if approved, would add $12 per month for the average residential electric customer and $4 per month for the average gas customer.
Kayaker Graham Jordinson, set out on July 18th from Three Forks, Montana, to embark on a 2,341 mile journey down the Missouri River to its confluence with the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The aim of his journey is to raise awareness about the detrimental impacts coal fired power plants have on our environment, climate, and water resources. Sioux City will be his first scheduled stop on his coal plant tour, where he will meet with local Sierra Club members to talk about MidAmerican’s George Neal North and South coal plants.
ALBANY, NY— Today, Governor Hochul's Department of Environmental Conservation initiated a rulemaking for the adoption of the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule, which will deliver zero-emission trucks to New York State, helping to slash diesel emissions, improve air quality, and spur the electric truck market.
Sierra Club, Prairie Rivers Network, and the Springfield Branch of the NAACP held a press conference today in the aftermath of an incident at the Dallman coal plant owned by the City of Springfield, and which released a lung-burning coal ash dust cloud into the air. City Water, Light, and Power’s Dallman coal plant malfunctioned on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 31, 2021.
Hartford, CT -- Today, the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection released the latest data on greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory shows that Connecticut is not on track to meet the state’s statutorily required reduction of emissions 45 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2030 and 2050, respectively.
Washington D.C. — Sierra Club is among 52 health, faith, environmental, and industry groups who are calling on Congressman Neal to go bold on incentivizing a just transition to a clean energy economy. As Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Neal will soon be marking up legislation in his committee and has the power to ensure that the historic $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill includes the strongest clean energy incentives possible.
Today, a settlement agreement was filed between Madison Gas and Electric Company (MGE), Sierra Club, Clean Wisconsin, Citizens Utility Board, RENEW Wisconsin, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, and Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group in the utility’s rate case.
Una Corte Suprema profundamente dividida anoche ignoró su propia jurisprudencia y socavó los derechos constitucionales de millones de personas al rechazar el bloqueo de la prohibición del aborto en Texas (S.B. 8).
A regional coalition of conservation groups commented on PacifiCorp’s 2021 Integrated Resource Plan that was filed today in the six states the utility serves, highlighting the plan’s failure to meet the recommendations of global scientists to transition away from all fossil fuels, as the utility intends to keep coal and gas generation in its resource mix well into the 2040s.