Press Releases

September 24, 2024

Washington, DC – CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of unions, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community groups, raised concerns about the contract between the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) and Polar Semiconductor company of Bloomington, MN.

September 24, 2024

HARTFORD, CT. – Today, a group of Connecticut’s climate and energy justice organizations rallied at the State Capitol in opposition to gas expansion and Enbridge’s proposed Project Maple. Together, the groups hand-delivered a letter signed by 30 state and local elected officials to the offices of Governor Ned Lamont and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Commissioner Katie Dykes.

September 23, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Forest Service has received more than 1 million comments over four comment periods urging it to protect mature and old-growth trees and forests from logging. A 90-day public comment period on the agency’s  National Old Growth Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) ended Friday. 

September 23, 2024

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.

September 23, 2024

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working to pass off their responsibility to Energy Capital Partners (ECP) with no plans to retire the plant or fix its outdated pollution controls.

September 23, 2024

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.

September 20, 2024

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.

September 20, 2024

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.

September 20, 2024

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

September 19, 2024

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.