The Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) sued the Department of Energy today for its failure to hand over documents as part of a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests pertaining to the Trump Administration’s reported plan to force taxpayers and electricity customers to pay billions of dollars to bail out uneconomic coal and nuclear plants.
LAS VEGAS, NV - Last week, E&E News reported that U.S. Senator Dean Heller’s campaign has raked in nearly $175,000 from out-of-state mining companies. That includes fifty donors connected to one Pennsylvania-based mining company, Jennmar Corporation. Meanwhile, E&E notes that “In Congress, Heller has stressed domestic mineral production.”
Sierra Club filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) covering the omission of Ottawa County from the agency’s list of areas across the country found to be in nonattainment of EPA’s health-based ozone (smog pollution) standard.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), ordered a halt to construction activities along the entire route of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline
CLEVELAND, OH -- Today, residents from across Cleveland joined local leaders on the steps of City Hall to demonstrate support for the goal to power the city with 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050.
Yesterday, Donald Trump and his Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler leveled the single biggest assault against our climate and clean air in US history. The backlash and response has been swift. Here’s a bit of what people are saying:
It’ll worsen public health, national security.
BOSTON--Two leading Massachusetts climate organizations: The Massachusetts Sierra Club and 350 Mass Action have endorsed newcomer Nika Elugardo in her race to unseat incumbent House Ways and Means Chair Jeffrey Sanchez.
Voters in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Mission Hill, and Brookline will decide between Elugardo and Sánchez in the upcoming Democratic primary on Tuesday, September 4.
Today, the Trump administration announced a plan to work with the state of Alaska on a special rule that would undermine protections for millions of acres of pristine, old-growth forest in the Tongass and Chugach National Forests.
Last night, the Trump Administration approved a $2.5 billion energy project near Joshua Tree National Park. The Eagle Crest Energy Company’s 1,300 megawatt hydropower project would drain billions of gallons of water from the desert aquifer and harm local desert species.
Minneapolis, MN – Today the Sierra Club North Star Chapter announced its endorsement of Ilhan Omar for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. .