Late Friday afternoon, Bloomberg News reported that the Trump administration is covering up a report commissioned by the Department of Energy that disputes the administration’s rationalization for planning to force electricity customers and taxpayers to pay tens of billions of dollars to bailout uneconomic coal plants heading for retirement.
Washington, DC -- In an interview with 60 Minutes yesterday, Donald Trump once again focused on conspiracy theories and denialism when pressed about climate change and protecting communities from its effects.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- From the Florida panhandle, through Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas, people are dealing with the destruction from Hurricane Michael just weeks after Hurricane Florence tore through the Carolinas. Never before has a Category 4 hurricane made landfall in the continental U.S. in October. Hurricane Michael has left at least sixteen people dead and more than 1.1 million homes without electricity -- with Panama City, Mexico Beach and the Florida panhandle area taking on the brunt of the storm.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2018, East Bradford Township and the Township of Haverford, Pennsylvania adopted resolutions establishing goals of transitioning to 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2035, and 100 percent renewable energy for heat and transportation by 2050.
Sierra Club Seeks To Challenge Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Water Grab
LOS ANGELES: The Sierra Club has intervened in a lawsuit brought by Mono County, California against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), challenging LADWP’s decision to drastically reduce vital irrigation waters it has for decades delivered to important wetlands, meadows and rangelands in southern Mono County.
Today, international financial services company NN Group announced that it will withdraw funding for tar sands pipeline companies including TransCanada and Enbridge, the companies behind Keystone XL and Line 3, respectively, citing concerns about climate impact and human rights abuses associated with tar sands pipelines.
WASHINGTON, DC - Sierra Club Independent Action unveiled its official voter guide for the 2018 midterms Monday, an important resource for millions of environmentally concerned voters who are mobilizing ahead of the November midterm elections.
Zinke Keeps Giving Government Contracts to Whitefish Energy, Turns His Back on a Veteran, And His Super PAC Mocks Sexual Assault Survivors, All While Angling for a New Job
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee announced today that it will take up the nomination of coal bailout architect Bernard McNamee to FERC next week in a hurried political move to inject the Trump administration’s political agenda of backing unnecessary fracked gas pipelines and supporting a nationwide coal bailout into the historically independent agency.
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, in Bali, Indonesia, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim confirmed that the World Bank is officially not supporting a new coal-fired power plant in Kosovo. Asked by Visar Azemi, Executive Director of the Balkan Green Foundation, where the World Bank stood on its pending support of the proposed 500-megawatt Kosovo C coal-fired power plant, Dr. Kim confirmed the Bank would not be providing financing. Kosovo C is the last coal plant being considered for financing by the World Bank. The Bank is now out of coal for good.