Sierra Club applauds and fully supports the special resolution Indianapolis City-County Council members passed unanimously tonight, calling on local electric provider Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) to update its 20-year energy plan filed with state regulators in December to include the full retirement of the Petersburg Super Polluter coal plant by 2028.
Trenton, NJ. - Today, the state Board of Public Utilities released New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan (EMP). The EMP contains admirable goals to electrify vehicles and advance Governor Murphy’s offshore wind targets. However, the EMP falls short on numerous aspects, and needs to do more to maximize the benefits of 100% clean energy in the face of the climate crisis.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today rejected the request from low-income residents, shrimpers, environmental groups, local cities and landowners to reverse its approval of the Rio Grande LNG fracked gas facility proposed for a site along the Gulf Coast near Brownsville. The move by FERC demonstrates that the agency has dismissed the groups’ justifiable concerns about elevated pollution and potentially devastating damage to the local tourism and fishing industries.
ARKANSAS - The Trump administration today will strip Clean Water Act protections for more than half the nation’s wetlands and millions of miles of streams-- numbers confirmed by the administration’s own analysis. The cuts put drinking water sources for millions of people in the U.S. at risk and jeopardize the ability to counter floods, droughts, toxic algal blooms, groundwater depletion and other worsening water issues driven by the climate crisis.
Today Dairyland Power Cooperative announced plans to retire the Genoa coal-fired power plant in Genoa, Wisconsin in 2021. This proposed coal plant retirement marks the 304th nationally.
While Donald Trump continues to parade around and attempt to greenhouse gaslight the country into believing he isn’t the worst president ever for the climate and environment, today, the Washington Post is reporting that of the more than 16,000 false and misleading claims Trump has made since taking office, nearly 500 of them have been related to the climate
La administración Trump debilitará hoy protecciones de la Ley de Agua Limpia de más de la mitad de los humedales del país y millones de millas de vías acuáticas.
Boston, MA - Senate leaders released a climate bill today requiring the Commonwealth to increase clean energy investments and decrease climate pollution 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. The legislation came about after the Senate unanimously passed a comprehensive bill last session requiring net-zero emissions by 2050.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Documents released by the Environmental Protection Agency in response to a lawsuit by the Sierra Club reveal that there was no factual basis for Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s false public claim that “most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.” Wheeler, a coal lobbyist prior to being chosen by Donald Trump to be the nation’s top environmental officer, made the false claim in 2019 during his first nationally televised network interview with CBS News.
WASHINGTON - Five major environmental and science groups today released advertisements in papers across the country calling on General Motors, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi to drop their attack on the Clean Air Act and stand up for strong clean car standards that help reduce pollution and secure a stable climate.