Press Releases

NYSERDA Commits to More Offshore Wind

Albany, N.Y.— The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) released a report today identifying two new “areas for consideration” which could host an additional 1,600 megawatts of offshore wind.

Media Advisory: Advocates to Rally for Accountability for Wells Fargo’s Funding of Projects that Threaten Climate and Communities

Tomorrow morning, as Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan testifies before the US Senate Banking Committee, DC residents will gather outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building to call on elected officials to hold Wells Fargo accountable for financing projects that threaten our communities and climate.

Sierra Club Response to Trump’s Twitter Attacks on Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This morning, amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump chose to launch a twitter attack on citizens in Puerto Rico and the Mayor of San Juan from the comforts of his golf club in New Jersey.

Pruitt and Zinke Deserve Price's Fate

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price resigned amid scandals over his abuse of private travel funded by taxpayers - abuse mirrored in the travel habits of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. The Washington Post reported that -- among other taxpayer-funded trips - Zinke booked a $12,000 charter flight on an oil executive’s jet -- a flight that had commercial options available for as cheap as $300. Pruitt meanwhile has already racked up nearly a million dollars in abusive spending since taking office, maintaining a massive personal security detail, an unnecessary soundproof phone booth and nearly $58,000 worth of private chartered and military flights.

Sierra Club: Senate Budget Proposal Opens Door To Drilling Arctic Refuge

Washington, DC - The Senate Budget Committee today released a budget resolution that opens the door to drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and also provides tax cuts to corporate polluters at the expense of public health and communities across the nation.

Sierra Club Statement on Supreme Court Case Janus v AFSCME

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Certiorari in Janus v. AFSCME. The Janus case could endanger public sector unions, threatening them with so-called “right-to-work” status.Janus is a resurrection of the Friedrichs case which was defeated in a 4-4 tie last year. With the appointment of conservative Justice Gorsuch, the Court has agreed to hear the same issue again.

Polluter Shill Perry Asks Independent FERC to Prop Up Uneconomic Coal and Nuclear Plants

Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, today asked FERC - an independent agency - to bail out the declining coal and nuclear industries, a move that would placate corporate polluters that can’t compete with cleaner, cheaper energy sources like solar, wind, and energy efficiency.

Leaked Audio Confirms Dominion Energy Misled Public on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Route

The Associated Press broke the news that Dan Weekley, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Dominion Energy, told a gathering of fracked gas industry insiders that the company had plans to extend the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline into South Carolina, despite only releasing maps that show it ending in North Carolina. This revelation contradicts not only what Dominion told the public, but what they told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina regulators, as well.

ICYMI: Zinke’s Week Opposing Western Values

Washington, DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons.

Minnesotans Rally and March to “Hold the Line” Against Proposed Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion

St. Paul, MN -- Today, Minnesotans marched and rallied outside the State Capitol to voice their opposition to the controversial proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline expansion.