WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Sierra Club filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) a challenge to Florida Southeast Connection’s (FSC) request for fast-track authorization to extend the fracked gas Sabal Trail Pipeline, in what is called the Okeechobee lateral project. The project would supply a massive new gas-burning power plant that FSC’s affiliate, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), wants to put into service in 2019.
Longview, Washington – The Washington Department of Ecology denied a necessary water quality permit for the proposed Millennium Bulk Terminals coal export facility in Longview today, citing the project’s negative impacts on climate, clean air and water. Absent a successful legal challenge to the decision, the denial renders the project formally dead. The decision can be found here: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/fed-permit/pdf/201001225WQC15417.pdf
North Carolina could retire every coal plant in the state, never build another gas plant, and still reliably meet people’s energy needs through clean, renewable sources, according an analysis commissioned by the Sierra Club.
Ahead of this week’s potential vote on the Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Alaska Wilderness League, the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Latinos, Green For All, Safe Climate Campaign, Earthjustice, Environmental Working Group, Endangered Species Coalition, Earthworks, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Oil Change International, The Climate Reality Project, Clean Water Action, Climate Vote Hawks, and 350.org are again urging Congress not to repeal the ACA and to support Planned Parenthood in a letter sent today.
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, when speaking before the National Petroleum Council, claimed that nearly one-third of the staff at the Interior Department are “not loyal to the flag.” He even went so far to claim that people at Fish and Wildlife Service “hated people to a degree.” Earlier this month, Zinke called for the largest rollback of protections for America’s p
Citing a lack of economic viability, a city-owned electric utility in Mississippi will close the Henderson Station coal plant in May 2018. The announcement highlights that consumers are continuing to choose clean energy as a superior alternative to dirty, expensive coal-fired electric power plants.
Community leaders rallied at the War Memorial Plaza today to celebrate and improve the bipartisan plan by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic governors to cut pollution from power plants 30 percent by the year 2030.
San Juan, Puerto Rico — Comunidades de todo Puerto Rico y el Caribe han sufrido el embate del Huracán María solo semanas después de la devastación creada por el Huracán Harvey en el Golfo de México e Irma también en el Caribe y la Florida.
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia ruled in favor of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards and Sierra Club on a citizen request for federal inspection of Red River Coal Company’s Greater Wise mine.
For the first time, National Drive Electric Week has reached all 50 states. This year’s coordinated network of 276 community events ranged from massive displays of electric vehicles in cities like San Diego, CA, Cambridge, MA, and Grapevine, TX, to ride and drive and electric vehicle financing education in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood, an electric vehicle parade in Honolulu, and the opening of the newest of six fast electric vehicle (EV) chargers along the Massachusetts turnpike.