January 2, 2018
The Sierra Club is debuting a new audio project and attendees will hear selected stories before participating in a short Q&A with experts and people personally affected by the climate crisis.
Whether it moves by pipeline, by rail, or by tanker, tar sands and other oil is polluting, highly combustible, and dangerous to communities and our climate. In order to avert the worst of the climate crisis and protect our communities from devastating explosions and oil spills, we must stop the industry from building any new oil infrastructure. After more than a decade of advocacy, legal challenges, and organizing in partnership with local communities along the pipeline route and across the country, we successfully blocked the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Now we are continuing to apply those same tools to winning fights against other pipelines, oil train terminals, and oil export facilities across the country.
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Press Releases
December 19, 2017
Today, the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) voted to reject a motion from TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, to amend their application for the controversial pipeline.
December 18, 2017
Despite mounting public opposition from a broad coalition of Indigenous and environmental groups, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo renewed their participation in a set of loans totaling $1.5 billion to TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
December 12, 2017
Today, in a 4-3 vote, the Virginia State Water Control Board (Board) conditionally approved the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), but put off a final decision until the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) can weigh in on additional plans from the pipeline’s builders. The project has generated intense public opposition due to expectations it will irrevocably degrade waterways and evidence the pipeline’s backers used self-dealing to justify demand.
December 12, 2017
Washington, DC -- Today, the World Bank announced that it will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction starting in 2019.The announcement comes as financial institutions have come under increased scrutiny over their funding of dirty fossil fuels that are driving the climate crisis.
December 11, 2017
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a tolling order for the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Although the Natural Gas Act requires that FERC act on rehearing requests within 30 days so that parties challenging a pipeline can quickly go to court, FERC uses tolling orders to extend the deadline for it to decide the rehearing request.
December 8, 2017
A coalition of environmental groups filed a petition for review with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to overturn Virginia’s unlawful approval of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Today’s action comes just a day after the Virginia State Water Control Board issued a certificate under the Clean Water Act that MVP needed to obtain to begin construction.
December 8, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, during EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s congressional hearing, Pruitt announced the EPA will be partnering with Toyota on an operational review. Toyota’s vehicles are regulated by the EPA under vehicle emission standards (clean car standards). Toyota is currently urging the EPA to weaken these standards. In March of 2003, the EPA reached a settlement with Toyota for failing to disclosure information about a faulty part that increased ozone pollution in 2.2 million vehicles sold in the U.S.
December 7, 2017
In yet another setback for Enbridge, the company behind the proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled today that the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the pipeline is inadequate. The Department of Commerce must answer narrow questions about Karyst Typography and clarify shortcomings in the analysis.
December 7, 2017
Today, the Virginia State Water Control Board allowed construction of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), despite public opposition and evidence the pipeline would irrevocably degrade pristine streams and waterways.