ST. LOUIS, MO - This week is the midpoint in a series of public hearings in Ameren territory to address a rate proposal by Ameren before the Missouri Public Service Commission. Ameren is seeking a business-as-usual proposal that would continue spending customers’ money on its high-cost coal-burning power plants, even though there are cheaper, cleaner alternatives.The request has groups within the region calling for greater accountability from the utility.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 Administrator Greg Sopkin signed a proposed rule to approve Utah’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan. The plan - essentially the same plan the EPA rejected twice before - rolls back emission reduction requirements for two of the state’s largest polluters, allowing the Hunter and Huntington coal-fired power plants to continue polluting the air we breathe, increasing hazy skies in Utah’s treasured national parks and adding to our climate crisis.
RICHMOND, VA. - Today, the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, joined by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network Action Fund, Clean Virginia and the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, hosted a rally and lobby day for unprecedented clean energy legislation. The day-long event brought together hundreds of advocates and community leaders from across the Commonwealth and featured remarks from legislators and energy experts.
LOS ANGELES— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today challenging the last step in the administration’s plan to allow oil drilling and fracking on more th
SANTA FE, NM - Yesterday, the Sierra Club joined an uncontested comprehensive agreement in a proceeding before the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, which will determine whether Xcel Energy can change electricity rates. The agreement includes commitments by Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS), a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, to retire the 1,050 megawatt, Tolk coal-fired power plant in Texas in 2032.
Today, after more than a year of increasing pressure from climate activists, investors, legislators, and thought leaders, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, in his highly anticipated annual letter, announced a sweeping new set of policies which aim to put climate change and sustainability at the center of BlackRock’s business model.
Washington, DC-- Today,the Washington Post reported that Trump will “divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding for border wall construction this year, five times what Congress authorized him to spend on the project in the 2020 budget.” Trump is using a national emergency declaration to continue moving tens of billions of dollars from national security budgets to fund
TRENTON, NJ– Today, in a 27-12 Senate vote and 65-9 Assembly vote, the New Jersey Legislature passed landmark legislation to electrify the state’s transportation sector and help New Jersey meet its climate goals of moving the state to 100% clean energy by 2050.
The legislation:
Over twenty people occupied a Chase Bank branch in Washington, D.C. today to kick off Stop the Money Pipeline, a major new activist effort going after the financial industry’s funding of climate destruction.
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Puerto Rico -- The earthquake of 6.4 that shook the island at dawn on January 7 again exposes the vulnerabilities of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to respond to natural disasters. Two years after Hurricane Maria, this emergency highlights the urgent need for decisive investment to transform the island's energy grid into a decentralized, clean, affordable, and reliable one.