November 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Energy Secretary Rick Perry made heinous comments suggesting that expanding fossil fuel development will decrease the incidence of sexual assault.
Press Releases
November 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, House Republicans unveiled another effort to funnel millions more into the pockets of corporate polluters, this time in the form of tax legislation that includes billions in giveaways for corporate polluters, millionaires, and billionaires, while endangering programs that protect the health and safety of American families and ending tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles and interfering with tax credits for wind and solar energy.
November 2, 2017
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the AP reported that Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Department of Agriculture’s Chief Science Adviser decided to withdraw his nomination.
November 2, 2017
A new coalition is launching a joint effort today to urge 28 European countries to dramatically accelerate their transition away from coal and toward clean, renewable energy. With the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland, France, Italy and Portugal committing to closing their remaining coal plants in the coming decade, Europe Beyond Coal is working to making this transition to a healthier world as swift as possible. Leaders of a sister campaign in the US, the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, welcomed the news.
November 2, 2017
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today is holding a hearing to explore drilling in the sensitive coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As part of the budget process, the committee has been tasked with raising $1 billion over 10 years-- a feat that would only be possible through Arctic Refuge drilling if companies paid exorbitant lease prices.
November 1, 2017
Today, an Administrative Law Judge issued a recommendation to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission that the Minnesota Department of Commerce’s final environmental impact statement on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline is adequate, in spite of significant flaws in the report.
November 1, 2017
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection abdicated its responsibility to review the water quality impacts of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline.
November 1, 2017
This morning, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Sierra Club in its legal challenge of the Department of Energy’s approval of exports of Liquefied Natural Gas from the Cove Point, Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi LNG terminals.
November 1, 2017
RICHMOND, VA - The Sierra Club announced today that it and the other parties have reached a settlement on Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s rate case, pending final approval from the State Corporation Commission.
October 31, 2017
Washington, DC -- After the breaking news of former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia, it was revealed that Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Department of Agriculture’s Chief Science Adviser, was the person who encouraged Papadopoulos to take the meeting with the Russians.