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New Report Highlights Impact and Potential of West Virginia’s Growing Clean Energy Economy

View Full Report Here Charleston, West Virginia -- The Sierra Club released a report today, which found that clean energy companies have successfully developed numerous projects in West Virginia and…

With the Retirement of Dolet Hills, Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Retires 300th Coal Plant Since 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Arkansas PSC approved the retirement of the Dolet Hills Power Station today, in a settlement with Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), making it the 300th coal plant…

Sierra Club Sues Trump Admin. (Again) For Stonewalling on FOIA Documents

Click Here to View Legal Filing WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Sierra Club sued the Trump Administration today under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for documents related to the potential development…

FERC Costs Consumers Billions, Hobbles Clean Energy Economy, to Help Coal and Fracked Gas Execs

WASHINGTON, D.C.  - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) instituted a disastrous new rule today that will essentially exclude new renewable energy resources from the PJM capacity…

Environmental Coalition Slams Pro-Monopoly PURPA Rewrite in Comments

Environmental coalition comments can be found by clicking here  Washington, D.C. - A wide ranging environmental coalition filed comments late yesterday against the Federal Energy Regulatory…

Sierra Club: ‘Coal Knew, Too’, So Stop the Climate Charade

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Huffington Post reported new evidence today that the coal industry knew about the long-term, global impacts of its carbon pollution decades ago, and that the industry has…

Trump Administration’s Deregulatory Timeline Cements Legacy As Worst US Presidential Administration for Environment

Trump’s Unified Agenda aims to roll back environmental safeguards by the end of 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump administration released its Unified Agenda, a timeline of rollbacks it is…

The Trump Administration Is Trying to Block Independent, Peer Reviewed Health Studies (Again)

Sierra Club Slams Trump’s Latest Plan to Undermine Science and Public Health WASHINGTON, D.C. - Late yesterday, the New York Times reported that former coal lobbyist  Andrew Wheeler is preparing…

Former Coal Lobbyist Wheeler Capitulates to His Former Employers Again on Clean Water Protections

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler capitulated twice to his former employers in the coal industry today by rolling back important clean water protections…

With Rollback, Trump Administration Unleashes Toxic Water Pollution From Coal Plants Into Drinking Water

The Sierra Club releases video advertisement and comment website against rollback WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced another rollback of a key…