April 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES -- Yesterday, over 1,600 gallons, or 40 barrels, of oil spilled in the Inglewood Oil Field when a shipping pipe was left open. The latest spill occurred just a few hundred feet from the Kenneth Hahn Park Playground.
Press Releases
April 7, 2021
New York, NY -- Today, JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) CEO Jamie Dimon released his influential annual letter to shareholders.
April 7, 2021
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Today, the California State Water Resources Control Board will host an annual workshop to update constituents on the Salton Sea Management Plan (SSMP), the state’s plan to address public health issues and build habitat at the sea. Groups working at the Salton Sea are calling on the state to improve the SSMP, especially in its efforts to engage communities and incorporate their input into projects at the Sea.
April 6, 2021
Illinois -- As part of a settlement agreement with the Sierra Club, Vistra Energy announced today that it would be closing its Joppa coal plant by September 1, 2022 - three years earlier than Vistra had previously announced. The agreement resolves groundwater litigation Sierra Club brought in 2018 before the Illinois Pollution Control Board to hold Vistra Energy accountable for dozens of exceedances of state groundwater standards documented at groundwater monitoring wells surrounding coal ash ponds at the Edwards, Coffeen, and Joppa coal plant sites. The agreement commits Vistra Energy to pay a portion of property taxes for three additional years to local taxing bodies following the closure of Joppa and to install additional groundwater monitors at its Edwards and Joppa sites.
April 5, 2021
Mobile County, Ala. — Last Friday, Sierra Club and GASP filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s (ADEM) issuance of a final Title V Permit for Plant Barry near Mobile. The permit was issued on February 2, 2021.
April 5, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has brought forward fewer than a dozen enforcement cases since 2000, the lowest number of any state.
April 5, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Sierra Club launched a digital ad campaign, urging the Biden administration to establish new, bolder vehicle standards — beyond the Obama-Biden standards — and to not give into vehicle manufacturers lobbying behind closed doors to keep us tied to weaker ones.
The ads are running in Politico and The Hill, as well as on LinkedIn, throughout the month of April, leading up to the US Climate Summit on April 22.
April 5, 2021
Proposed export facilities would accommodate the global export of massive quantities of crude oil on shipping vessels known as Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs)
April 1, 2021
ST CLOUD, MN -- Earlier today, community members from across Central Minnesota held a press conference demanding that Xcel Energy commit to 100% clean, renewable energy, to express opposition to building a new fossil gas plant and gas pipeline in Becker, and to remind the utility that Minnesotans are not fossil fools.