Press Releases

May 17, 2021

DEARBORN, MI - Today, President Biden will visit the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, where the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of Ford’s iconic and best-selling F-150 truck, will be built by UAW workers in a new $700 million facility.

May 17, 2021

HUNTINGTON, WV -- Today, the Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, filed a lawsuit against the U.S.

May 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai indicated that the Biden Administration intends to ask Mexico and Canada to incorporate the Paris climate accord into the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. During a hearing before the Ways & Means Committee on President Biden’s trade agenda, Tai said next week’s meeting with trade ministers of the other two countries would be a “great opportunity” to amend the USMCA’s list of multilateral environmental agreements to include the Paris Agreement.

May 13, 2021

Washington, DC -- Today, JPMorgan Chase released its 2030 interim emissions “intensity” targets for its financing of oil and gas, electric power, and auto manufacturing, following the bank’s October commitment to align its financing activities with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

12 de mayo de 2021

La Comisión de Reglas y Administración del Senado aprobó anoche la S.1, la Ley Para El Pueblo, y la envió al pleno para su votación final. El Sierra Club insta al Senado a acabar con el filibusterismo parlamentario en su estado actual.

May 12, 2021

DULUTH, MN -- Environmental groups and clean energy advocates have released a scorecard evaluating Minnesota Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to educate the public on how the utility intends to provide energy to the Northland for the next 15 years.

May 11, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Late yesterday, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee advanced S.1, the For the People Act, to the floor for a final vote. The For The People Act is a landmark democracy reform package that is designed to create nationwide automatic and same day voter registration, strengthen anti-corruption laws to curb the influence of corporate polluters, put an end to partisan gerrymandering, restore voting rights for 1.7 million formerly incarcerated people, and more. 

May 11, 2021

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) submitted notice of its intent to file an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the retirement of the Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tennessee. Through the upcoming EIS process, TVA will identify the timeline to retire the plant’s two coal units and if any replacement generation is needed.

May 10, 2021

 

May 7, 2021

This afternoon, after seven years of frontline community activism, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) passed the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (ISR) to address the region’s serious air quality problems by cutting pollution from the trucks traveling to and from warehouses, electrifying warehouses, and creating local clean energy jobs. The ISR is the first step in eliminating toxic emissions from one of the nation’s largest and most profitable industries.