April 25, 2018
Vectren Corp. of Evansville and CenterPoint Energy of Houston, Texas, announced a merger agreement.
Press Releases
April 24, 2018
73 scientists say #NoGrizHunt.
April 24, 2018
Residents from Central Illinois testified before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) yesterday in strong opposition to proposed rollbacks to federal coal ash pollution rules. USEPA Head Scott Pruitt’s new proposal to weaken the already modest federal clean water protections from toxic coal ash endangers the health of the 1.5 million children that live near coal ash storage sites. Illinois has seventy-five coal ash impoundments across the state. These sites contain some of the most toxic chemicals on earth - like arsenic, lead, mercury, and chromium - which raise the risk for cancer, heart disease, and stroke, and can inflict permanent brain damage on children. Proposed rollbacks not only cede the authority to monitor pollution to polluters themselves, but also will curtail local residents’ ability to hold companies accountable for damaging local water supplies.
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club began airing a TV ad on Fox and Friends calling for Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. The ads will air on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. The ad focuses on Pruitt’s swamp-like behavior including lavish spending and the Republican backlash.
April 24, 2018
April 24, 2018
Dominion Energy is trying to suppress efforts to thoroughly evaluate construction of its Atlantic Coast Pipeline by claiming the delays will cost taxpayers money - despite the fact that Dominion wants to pass the costs of the pipeline on to ratepayers.
April 24, 2018
The Sierra Club and its allies mobilized more than 60 local community leaders from around the country to attend the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) public hearing on coal ash, to demand national clean water protections from coal ash be kept in place. Local leaders from communities polluted by coal ash traveled to D.C. from states including IL, GA, IN, OK, NC, Puerto Rico, and Navajo Nation.
April 24, 2018
Scandal ridden EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announce today that he is ordering staff to limit their use of scientific studies to those where the underlying data is publicly available, disqualifying the use of long-standing, landmark studies linking air pollution and pesticide exposure to harmful health impacts. These studies had long protected the confidential health information findings were based on which protected patients and scientists. This announcement has long been on polluters’ wishlists since medical science, which generally guarantees the anonymity of patients participating in studies, has repeatedly proven that smog, particulate matter, and heavy metals - all hallmarks of the fossil fuel and chemical industries - can cause death and severe health complications. Pruitt, who has also repeatedly been granted favors and career advancement through his relationship with polluting industries, is seeking to hide medical science from the public which would ordinarily force EPA to develop and enforce new protections against harmful pollution.
April 24, 2018
Today, Senator Jim Inhofe, a former staunch Scott Pruitt ally, was asked whether Pruitt should resign if the allegations of his abuse of taxpayer funds, illegal spending, and other misconduct are true. Inhofe responded saying it "depends on which ones we are talking about."
April 24, 2018
A crowd of activists rallied today outside of a meeting of Wells Fargo’s shareholders and executives to call on the bank to drop its financing of dirty and destructive fossil fuel projects.