WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the US Senate confirmed Pete Buttigieg to serve as Secretary of the Department of Transportation.
In response to the confirmation, Gina Coplon-Newfield, Director of Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All campaign, released the following statement:
“Today’s confirmation of Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation is a big step forward towards addressing the climate and health impacts of our polluting and inequitable transportation status quo.
Richmond, VA -- Last night, Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) not only rejected Dominion Energy’s Integrated Resources Plan (IRP) that would cost consumers millions of dollars and needlessly further reliance on dirty and uneconomic fossil fuel infrastructure but is requiring Dominion to address the environmental justice impacts of its various resource plans. The IRP is a 15-year plan projecting future energy demand, costs, and how Dominion proposes to meet customer’s energy needs and the Commonwealth’s clean energy requirements.
ANNAPOLIS, MD - Today, landmark coal transition legislation sponsored by Senator Chris West (R - District 42), Senator Brian Feldman (D - District 15), Delegate Benjamin Brooks (D - District 10) & Delegate Kumar Barve (D - District 17) will be heard by the Senate Finance Committee starting at 1 pm.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, and other major automakers dropped their support for the Trump administration’s attack on California’s clean car standards, after a year of pressure from environmental, clean air, consumer and faith advocates.
Sun Prairie, WI -- This morning, Alliant Energy subsidiary Wisconsin Power and Light (WPL) announced plans to retire the two units at the Columbia coal plant -- which Alliant Energy co-owns with Madison Gas & Electric and Wisconsin Public Service -- in 2023 and 2024, a move that will result in Alliant Energy being coal-free in Wisconsin more than 15 years earlier than the company’s previous commitment. Today’s announcement is the result of Alliant Energy’s comprehensive resource planning process, in which Sierra Club and other stakeholders began participating in 2019, and continued collaborative discussions. Alliant Energy’s planning process was the first of its kind in Wisconsin, and included economic analysis of the company’s coal plants compared to clean energy resources like solar, wind and battery storage, which resulted in its “Clean Energy Blueprint” plan. The decision to retire the Columbia plant early is a significant step forward for the Blueprint, and follows Alliant Energy’s decision last year to retire the Edgewater coal plant in 2022 and invest in 1,000 MW of solar by 2023.
SEATTLE - Today the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to update its building code to require more electric appliances, significantly reducing climate pollution from new commercial and large multi-family residential buildings in the coming years.
La administración Biden solicitó hoy a la Corte Suprema que retrase los argumentos del caso Sierra Club v. Trump, presentado por la Unión de Libertades Cívicas en nombre del Sierra Club y la Coalición de Comunidades Fronterizas del Sur.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana vacated the Trump Administration’s “anti-science” rule today, and remanded it back to the EPA. The scientific and legal community have long cast doubt on the safety and legality of the rule, which would exclude important medical research from EPA’s rulemaking process.
Update in Sierra Club vs. Trump case.
DOVER, DE - On the first day after President Biden refocused the nation’s commitment to climate action, the first state passed a clean energy bill that will increase the amount of renewable energy from 25% to 40% to Delaware homes and businesses. The Renewable Portfolio Standard bill, known as S.B. 33 introduced by State Sen. Hansen and Rep.