Press Releases

January 22, 2019

According to disclosures submitted to the non-profit CDP and reported yesterday by Bloomberg, Wells Fargo sees the climate crisis as an opportunity to make more money.

January 22, 2019

Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced they would install tens of millions of new solar panels by 2030. While this is a positive step forward, their announcement left out some crucial perspective.

January 19, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump proposed a deal to end the shutdown he started that would include $5.7 billion for his border wall in exchange temporarily extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and legislation to extend the legal status of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.

January 18, 2019

On January 18, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Clean Energy D.C. Omnibus Act of 2018,” a bold climate bill unanimously passed by the D.C. Council on December 18.

January 18, 2019

The Sierra Club and partner organizations filed an appeal today challenging a key permit for a massive proposed petrochemical facility known as an “ethane cracker” in Belmont County. The plant is part of the industry’s push to steeply increase U.S. plastic production.

January 17, 2019

On Thursday, January 17, the City Council of Keene, New Hampshire voted to establish a goal of transitioning the city to 100 percent clean and renewable energy. Keene joins the communities of Concord, Cornish, Hanover, and Plainfield to become the fifth city in the state to establish the goal.

January 17, 2019

Today, the Senate of Virginia Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources voted to pass Senate Bill 1533 and refer it to the Senate Finance Committee by a vote of 9-5, the first step towards permanently dealing with the legacy of the toxic coal ash pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Virginia.

January 17, 2019

Today, the Virginia State Corporation Commission took a stand to protect Virginians by rejecting Phase 1 of Dominion Energy’s “grid modernization” plan, as the corporation failed to present the benefits or need for the proposed expensive and unnecessary measures.

January 17, 2019

DENVER -- Today, Governor Jared Polis of Colorado issued the first executive order of his administration, unveiling a set of actions that will clean up Colorado’s transportation sector through accelerated adoption of electric vehicles in Colorado.  

January 17, 2019

Today, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink published his annual letter to CEOs. In this year’s letter, he describes an “increasingly fragile” global landscape and a need for corporations to be leaders and “address pressing social and economic issues.” Fink failed to mention climate change at all in the letter, despite the urgent need to take action on this issue.