August 2, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Contact: Trey Pollard trey.pollard@sierraclub.org
Sierra Club Statement on Jim Justice Switching Back to the Republican Party
Press Releases
August 2, 2017
Washington, DC -- Today, the Senate voted to confirm Donald Trump’s nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Neil Chatterjee and Rob Powelson.
August 2, 2017
SPRING HOPE, N.C. -- North Carolinians and the Sierra Club are organizing a canoe and kayak trip down the Tar River to show residents and media the ways in which Duke Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would negatively affect the state’s waterways. The pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through eight North Carolina Counties, crossing over 560 creeks, rivers, and wetlands before stopping in Robeson County.
August 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Late yesterday, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, dropped his unlawful one-year delay of the implementation of 2015 smog pollution standard after numerous environmental groups (including Sierra Club), public health organizations, and attorneys general from across the United States sued to block the effort.
July 31, 2017
San Diego -- The Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver allowing the agency to ignore key health and environmental safeguards in their misguided efforts to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.
In response, Dan Millis of the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter Borderlands Program issued the following statement.
July 31, 2017
SEATTLE - Olympia mayor Cheryl Selby pledged her support for moving the city of Olympia to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2035.
July 31, 2017
Washington, DC -- Last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered Scott Pruitt’s EPA to enforce safeguards limiting methane pollution from new oil and gas operations.
July 31, 2017
RALEIGH, N.C.— The Sierra Club on Monday filed a petition to intervene in Duke Energy Progress’ request to raise customers’ bills by 16.7 percent, or about $17.80 per month for the average residential monthly bill.
Duke is seeking approval from the North Carolina Utilities Commission of a $477.5 million increase in the amount the utility can collect from ratepayers each year.
July 30, 2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7/31/2017
Sierra Club Statement on Abandonment of Nuclear Plant in South Carolina
Sierra Club has opposed the dangerous V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant
since the beginning of the project
July 30, 2017
**This statement was released in conjunction with a press conference today at the National Press Club. Videos of the conference can be found on the Illinois Chapter of Sierra Club’s Facebook Page and Clean Water Action’s Facebook Page**