SAN FRANCISCO — Today, a coalition of non-profit environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, and San Francisco Baykeeper, filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil (“Exxon”), the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers.
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NEW YORK, NY – As Climate Week kicks off in New York City, the private equity firm Blackstone has ignored calls to retire America’s deadliest coal plant – the Gavin coal plant – and instead is working to pass off their responsibility to Energy Capital Partners (ECP) with no plans to retire the plant or fix its outdated pollution controls.
KNOXVILLE, TENN. — Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which outlines how the federal utility aims to generate electricity for its 10 million customers over the next 25 years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marks the closing of a public comment period seeking input on a proposed plan that could protect the last remaining old-growth trees in the United States.
Senators Martin Heinrich and John Boozman today introduced the Every Kid Outdoors Extension Act. The Every Kid Outdoors program, which began in 2015, grants all fourth graders free access to federal public lands, waters, and shores.
Legal intervention launched to defend federal public lands conservation rule from ND, MT, ID lawsuit
BISMARCK, N.D.—Community, Tribal and environmental groups today filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit from the states of North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which creates a framework for the agency to manage 245 million acres for conservati
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — An imminent decision could fast-track the reopening of the same pipeline that caused the devastating 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill. Sable Offshore Corporation, a publicly-traded Houston start-up company (NYSE:SOC), wants to restart this risky pipeline to resume pumping oil from three offshore oil platforms to processing facilities in Santa Barbara.
Milwaukee, WISCONSIN – Sierra Club’s newest report, Demanding Better, details pathways and policies from new large load customers like data centers, such as Microsoft’s, to meet the increased demand for electricity while decreasing climate pollution.
Utah – On Wednesday, September 18, 2024, clean air advocates gathered at the Utah State Capitol, for a powerful “filibuster,” reading aloud from 6,000 public comments submitted to the EPA. The comments called for stronger pollution controls for Utah’s worst coal polluters – the Hunter and Huntington coal plants.
Washington, D.C. – After two decades of staying relatively flat, states throughout the country are seeing sharp increases in demand for electricity. This demand is driven in large part by new data center load growth due to generative artificial intelligence, technology manufacturers, and electrifying industries. As a consequence, utilities with growing demand projections have proposed extending obsolete and dirty coal plant operations or building new gas plants, putting climate goals at risk.