Conservation, environmental and landowners groups argued in federal court in Montana today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of a permit authorizing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to be constructed through hundreds of rivers, streams, and wetlands failed to evaluate the project’s impacts, in violation of bedrock U.S. environmental laws.
Detroit, Mich. -- Today, after several years of advocacy, Sierra Club, NRDC, National Housing Trust and DTE Energy reached a landmark agreement that will bring significant energy efficiency upgrades to utility customers in danger of having their power shut off.
Today, the Sierra Club appealed the Georgia Public Service Commission's decision to award Georgia Power $525 million to clean up decades-worth of coal ash contamination.
Chicago, IL -- Concerned Illinois residents are attending a hearing today before the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to show opposition to the proposed expansion of the Dakota Access pipeline.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Late yesterday, the EPA released its annual automotive trends report, which found that only three out of 14 major automakers - Honda, Subaru and Mazda - met the clean car standards from 2013 to 2018 without relying on compliance loopholes.
A federal appeals court today ruled that the U.S. Forest Service broke the law by failing to consider an alternative that would protect the Gunnison National Forest’s Pilot Knob area from coal mining. The decision by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directs the lower court to vacate an exception that allowed the Forest Service to approve coal mining in roadless forests in the Gunnison River’s North Fork.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Politico reported that EPA’s Science Advisory Board issued its final report criticizing the agency’s rollback of the clean car standards for using “faulty science” and that the current standards “might provide a better outcome for society than the proposed revision.”
The proposed final rule to roll back Obama-era clean car standards has been under review by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget since January.
This week, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) introduced H.R. 5861 - the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA). The Sierra Club applauds the inclusion of several important sections of the ARA.
MADISON, WI —Clean Wisconsin and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court on Friday asking for review of the Public Service Commission’s decision to approve construction of a large gas power plant proposed for a site in Superior, Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and the Sierra Club released a new report, Gender and Climate Change in the United States: A Reading of Existing Research, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive gender review of scientific literature in the U.S. Through careful analysis of existing literature, the report details how gender shapes experiences with the climate crisis through the themes of human health, extreme weather events, employment in climate-affected sectors, and public knowledge and perception of environmental issues. In sum, the report underscores that as we begin to craft climate policy in the face of the climate crisis, gender and a comprehensive gender analysis matters.