WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States Forest Service announced a draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on a plan to protect the country’s remaining old-growth trees.
The proposed amendment to all national forest plans would be a significant advance towards fulfilling Executive Order 14072, which President Biden issued in March 2022, committing the United States to “identify, inventory, and protect” mature and old-growth forests on federal lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Biden Administration released a report on the historic and continued impacts of dams on the Columbia River and its tributaries on Columbia Basin Tribes and salmon populations.
Michigan – Today, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued an opinion and judgment to remand the case Nessel v. Enbridge back to Ingham County Circuit Court in Michigan.
BARNSTABLE, MA. – Massachusetts residents joined in the global celebration of clean, renewable wind energy Saturday at the Cape Cod is Ready for Offshore Wind Rally. 100 people attended the Global Wind Day rally at Craigville Beach Saturday afternoon. Together, the crowd enjoyed the beachy Saturday with remarks by speakers on the pressing climate crisis and the critically positive role offshore wind can play in mitigating its impacts.
INDIO, Calif. -- The Sierra Club and local leaders gathered on Friday to urge President Biden to designate the proposed Chuckwalla National Monument and protect important lands adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park. The community meeting was hosted by the Department of Interior and Bureau of Land Management at the Riverside County Fairgrounds.
Roxboro, NC - Community members and environmental experts warned that their well-being and the environment will be placed at long-running risk by Duke Energy's plan to build the first of two proposed methane gas plants on Hyco Lake.
They spoke at two public hearings held by the N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC) on Duke's plan to replace its coal-burning Roxboro Plant last week.
Today Sierra Club and Public Citizen sued FERC for its approval of ONEOK’s Saguaro Connector Pipeline that would export massive amounts of methane gas from West Texas to Mexico for further transport, liquefaction, and export primarily to Asia.
The Senate voted to confirm three nominees to serve terms as commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Judy W. Chang was confirmed today, and David Rosner and Lindsay S. See were confirmed yesterday.
HILLSBOROUGH, FL - Tampa Electric Company (TECO) customers and advocates with the Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, League of United Latin American Citizens, Florida Rising, League of Women Voters Hillsborough, and Central Florida Jobs with Justice blasted the monopoly utility’s proposed rate hike at a press conference and public hearing this morning, saying it’s unaffordable and props up expensive and polluting coal-burning power plants.
Today, despite ten years of fierce community opposition and countless failures and violations, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted approval to allow the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline to go into service.