Melissa Williams is lead press secretary for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
DENVER — Sierra Club and NRDC have filed a response to a move by Gov. Jared Polis and Xcel Energy to weaken the Public Utilities Commission’s decision to limit the usage of, and air pollution…
DELTA, UTAH — Utah's largest coal-fired power plant — the Intermountain Power Project (IPP), located in the Great Basin region of western Utah and primarily serving southern California —…
ATLANTA, GA—The Sierra Club and its allies have filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County demanding that state regulators protect Georgia’s drinking water and rivers from mercury,…
Media ReleaseApril 12, 2017Contact: Melissa Williams, 828-545-0443, melissa.williams@sierraclub.orgEmily Driscoll, Southern Environmental Law Center, 678-686-8482, edriscoll@selcga.org …
ATLANTA, GA.— Today, the Environmental Protection Division released a new draft discharge permit for Plant Hammond, the coal-burning power plant located in Rome. Last month, Sierra Club and its…
TALLAHASSEE, FLA—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…
DURHAM, NC—A plan to build a gas plant on the Duke University campus will not move forward for approval in May by the university’s board of trustees. A special subcommittee of Duke University’s…
KNOXVILLE, TENN.— Today, the U.S. Senate voted to approve Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In response, Scott Banbury, Conservation…
CHARLOTTE, N.C.— Duke Energy Progress today filed a request to raise customers’ rates, in large part to pay cleanup and storage costs for the utility’s coal ash waste. Duke estimates the eventual…
MEMPHIS, TENN.— In many places across the country, the air we breathe is contaminated with dirty fossil fuel pollution that threatens the health of our families and communities. This is a real…