Melissa Williams is lead press secretary for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
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…
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The Sierra Club has launched an ad campaign in the Carolinas and Indiana, calling out Duke Energy for shutting people out of its annual shareholder meeting by hosting it online only.…
For Immediate ReleaseTuesday, May 2, 2017Contact:Melissa Williams, melissa.williams@sierraclub.orgSean Sarah, sean.sarah@sierraclub.org Sierra Club applauds retirement announcement for…