May 14, 2019
The Trump Organization is facing $2.1 million a year in fines by New York City beginning in 2030 for excessive climate-disrupting emissions from its buildings, including Trump Tower.
Press Releases
May 14, 2019
Nationwide -- Throughout the month of April, the first ever annual Drive Electric Earth Day was held, with 188 events taking part across the United States, as well as Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and New Zealand.
May 13, 2019
San Juan, Puerto Rico, -- Recent reporting in El Neuvo Dia revealed plans from coal company AES to relocate their infamous coal ash pile to be stored in Osceola County, Florida.
May 9, 2019
MARINA, Calif.— The Trump administration today finalized a plan to open 725,500 acres of public lands and mineral estate across California’s Central Coast and the Bay Area to new oil and gas drilling. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plan is an increase of nearly 327,000 acres from the draft proposal prepared under the Obama administration.
May 10, 2019
Washington, DC-- Today, the Trump administration announced they will steal $1.5 billion in Pentagon funds to construct 80 more miles of wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move brings the total transferred out of the Pentagon budget for border walls to $2.5 billion.
May 9, 2019
Albany, N.Y.— The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) signed a finalized regulation today that will fully eliminate coal in New York by 2020. This regulation, years in the making and overwhelmingly supported by the public, is the first of its kind in the nation. The removal of coal-fired power is a critical step for the state to reach its goal of a 100 percent greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the electric sector by 2040.
May 9, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representative Raúl M. Grijalva and Senator Tom Udall today introduced legislation to finally reform the Mining Law of 1872. The legislation would be the first update to the mining laws since the time of pick and shovel miners.
May 8, 2019
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign reached two major milestones this week with the announced retirements of the CD McIntosh coal plant in Lakeland, Florida and the Utah Power Plant in Magna, Utah.
May 8, 2019
RICHMOND, Virginia – The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) hosted a hearing on Dominion Energy’s refiled 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) today, which laid out a long-range forecast of electricity demand and how the monopoly utility intends to meet that demand.
May 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Democrats are holding the first hearing on the recently introduced Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act -- led by Representatives Scott, Wilson, Levin, Jayapal, and Boyle, and Senators Murray, Brown, and Rosen -- seeks to strengthen protections for workers to organize and bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. The PRO Act is the biggest proposed overhaul of the National Labor Relations Act in over 70 years.