The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted requests from Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs to refuse to allow votes on shareholder resolutions seeking to hold the banking giants accountable for their contributions to climate change.
Sierra Club submitted 57,722 comments yesterday to former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding that he drop his decision to try and scrap climate safeguards for new power plants.
Yesterday, the Trump administration sent a spending request to Congress calling for steep cuts to several research programs focused on PFAS and the neurotoxin lead.
BOSTON, MA -- On Monday, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) released its final Focus40 Plan, highlighting the process and priorities to get the MBTA’s transportation system to meet the region’s needs by 2040. Unfortunately, the plan makes no commitments to investing in electric buses beyond service testing of five electric buses and a pilot.
local residents headed to Citizens Square to deliver over 1,000 petitions to Mayor Tom Henry, urging him to sign on to a letter supporting a transition to renewable energy for Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) customers. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Dennis Tyler, along with a majority of city council members in Fort Wayne, South Bend and Muncie have responded to constituent requests by signing letters asking Indiana Michigan Power to invest in renewable energy in its 20-year energy plan.
NEW YORK CITY, NY -- In a recently released newsletter, New York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) highlighted that the electric vehicles in its city fleet -- compared to vehicles fueled by oil and gas -- are providing dramatic cost savings for the City due to lower maintenance costs.
Jackson, WY — A conservation coalition filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today, asking a judge to order the agency to issue a long-overdue plan to phase out elk feeding on the Jackson Hole National Elk Refuge.
Asset managers like BlackRock are overlooked contributors to the climate crisis. Although pension funds and banks are familiar targets of climate activism, asset managers play a unique and distinctly problematic role in the climate crisis.
BOSTON, MA -- On Saturday, over 50 municipal officials gathered at Framingham State University for the culminating event of a year-long series of Climate Leadership Summits organized by the Massachusetts Sierra Club.
Sierra Club Supporters Testify Against Rollback of Mercury Safeguard’s Legal Foundation