January 16, 2017
Clean air and water advocates are delivered “Pruitt Survival Kits” to members of the United States Senate today.
Press Releases
January 16, 2017
Sierra Club today filed suit in the Florida Supreme Court to block FPL’s rate hike for an energy plan that bilks millions of customers and further locks the Sunshine State into an over-reliance on financially risky, climate-disrupting gas.
January 16, 2017
Today, the State Department announced a new $500 million grant to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a fund created by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to provide financial support for developing countries to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate disruption.
January 16, 2017
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today is holding a hearing to examine the nomination of Rep. Ryan Zinke to serve as Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
January 13, 2017
Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to join Center for Community Change, United We Dream, SEIU, Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign and other allies in national-day-of-action rallies to support immigrants and oppose Trump’s xenophobia.
January 12, 2017
According to E&E News, those working for and supporting Oklahoma Attorney General and Trump nominee to be EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, have opened a new political operation while shuttering his leadership PAC and Super PAC.
January 12, 2017
Today, an environmental coalition including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Ecology Center, Electric Auto Association, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Fresh Energy, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Ceres, the Greenlining Institute, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Conservation Law Foundation submitted recommendations to Volkswagen (VW) on how to most effectively spend a portion of national settlement funds to increase green transportation: the “ZEV Investment Plan.”
June 29, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, it was reported that Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, will lead a “formal initiative” to undermine and call into question the overwhelming scientific consensus that man is driving the climate crisis, funding a program to bring in “alternative” voices who deny the climate crisis on the heels of Pruitt’s
June 29, 2017
Raleigh, NC -- Today, all the fracked gas purchasing agreements justifying the the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were set to expire because the Environmental Impact Statement for the pipeline was not completed before June 30, 2017. Instead, North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) granted an extension to Duke Energy for the contracts, responding to an emergency request without review by the NCUC or the public.
June 28, 2017
Utah -- Yesterday, the Public Service Commission approved an $10M Electric Vehicle (EV) incentive and time-of-use pilot program, as a part of Rocky Mountain Power's Application to Implement Programs Authorized by the state’s Sustainable Transportation and Energy Plan Act.