Oakland, CA -- Yesterday, shareholder advocacy organization As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution asking Wells Fargo to align its loans and investments with the Paris Climate Agreement by ending its support for fossil fuel development including coal, Arctic oil, and tar sands.
Denton, Tex. - This week, Denton Mayor Chris Watts and his city council colleagues unanimously approved two new solar contracts, pushing Denton closer to a 100% renewable goal and signaling the end of reliance on the 35-year-old coal plant known as Gibbons Creek.
Bernard McNamee, a long time fossil fuel lawyer and architect of the Trump Administration’s failed coal bailout attempt, testified today before the United States’ Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his nomination to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
90% of all gas pipeline fires and explosions draw no financial penalty for the corporations responsible
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Three major wildfires are burning in California, including the Camp fire in Butte County and the Southern California Hill fire and Woolsey fire. At least 56 people have been reported dead and more than 100 are still reported missing.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
Today, 51 non-governmental organizations from around the globe sent letters to Amazon and eBay, calling on them to stop marketing dangerous and illegal mercury-based skin lightening creams. The groups testing identified 19 skin products sold by these companies that contain illegal mercury levels. Most products had mercury levels thousands of times higher than the legal limit of 1 part per million, established in the United States and many other countries.
RICHMOND, VA --Today, Dominion Energy released a coal ash report on the feasibility and cost of recycling the toxic coal plant byproduct. The report comes in the wake of coal ash disasters in neighboring North Carolina caused by Hurricane Florence, where massive amounts of coal ash pollutants were discharged into rivers and groundwater.
Washington, DC -- Earlier today, the EPA said it was planning to craft new standards to limit smog-forming pollution from big rigs and other heavy-duty trucks. The process to strengthen current emission standards began under the Obama Administration before disgraced former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt pumped the brakes upon taking office.
In response, Sierra Club Clean Transportation for All Deputy Advocacy Director Andrew Linhardt released the following statement:
Birmingham, ALA. – Today, it was announced that EPA Region 4 Director Trey Glenn has been indicted by an Alabama grand jury for allegedly facilitating violations of the Alabama Ethics Act.
(Kalama, WA) November 13, 2018—Today, a report written by the company proposing the world’s largest fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery was released by the Port of Kalama and Cowlitz County, WA. The proposed fossil fuel refinery is controversial because of the impacts on both local residents’ health and our climate. Despite the company’s claim that the refinery could result in a climate benefit, the refinery would consume a stunning amount of fracked gas—one-third as much gas as the entire state of Washington.