We are taking on polluting corporations to protect our health, our climate, and the places we love from the reckless expansion of dirty, dangerous fossil fuels.
From drilling to burning and all along the way, fossil fuels produce toxic chemicals and climate-polluting emissions. They harm our health, pollute our air and water, and drive the climate crisis. Sierra Club and our allies across the country are fighting back against the corporations rushing to profit off the exploitation of our communities. We are shining a light on polluters’ lies and turning the tide against the industry’s push to build and expand oil and gas
Line 5 poses catastrophic risks to the neighboring farmland, pristine natural areas, valuable freshwater sources, and tribal lands.
Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline transports 22 million gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids across 645 miles of countryside every day. This aging line — which has long outlived its anticipated lifespan — has significantly deteriorated over the course of the last several decades, risking a catastrophic oil spill.
Learn moreDespite the dire climate warnings, major banks like Wells Fargo and asset managers like BlackRock continue to increase their funding of fossil fuels every year.
Banks and other financial institutions play a huge role in keeping fossil fuels on top by investing in dirty, dangerous fossil fuels, rather than cleaner, safer renewable energy.
Find Out MoreCommunities across New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana are looking for opportunities to organize against the fossil fuel companies that have caused them so much harm and corrupted their political system. Hear from activists in these areas.
ListenIndigenous, faith, environmental, and youth leaders protested the proposed enlargement of Enbridge, Inc.'s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
For more than seven years, the Sierra Club has successfully helped block the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and we will apply the same tools to winning fights against other pipelines and oil-train terminals across the country.
Find Out MoreThe Dirty Fuels campaign aims to keep dirty, non-renewable fuels in the ground by making renewable energy clean, abundant, and affordable.
Explore our map of gas pipelines.
Fracked gas is not part of a clean energy future, and we cannot prevent the worst effects of climate change if we allow the fossil fuel industry to lock the United States into decades more of gas production.
See the MapToday, the Department of Energy (DOE) concluded its comment period on the 2024 LNG Export Study: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of U.S. LNG Exports. A broad coalition of local residents, fishermen, economists, environmental…
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Department of Energy conditionally approved exports from one of Venture Global's controversial liquefied methane gas export projects, CP2 LNG, despite the devastating effects the facility would have on local…
Today, Donald Trump is meeting with oil and gas executives, including members of the American Petroleum Institute, at the White House.
Houston, TX - Today, NextEra CEO John Ketchum said that renewable energy was cheaper and more readily available than fossil fuels. In a response to U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright’s speech, where Wright diminished the importance of…
Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a long-time former fracked gas company CEO, delivered remarks during the first day of CERAWeek. During his remarks, Secretary Wright announced an export permit extension of Delfin LNG, a proposed offshore…