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Press Releases


EPA awards over $499 million to SCAQMD from Inflation Reduction Act’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program

LOS ANGELES – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) was awarded $499,997,415 in funding as part of the…

Green Groups Take Legal Action to Dismiss Hydrogen Blending Pilots

SAN FRANCISCO – A coalition of environmental groups and consumer advocates—Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Utility Consumers’ Action Network and Climate Action Campaign—filed a motion…

Sierra Club Applauds New Zero Emission Forklift Rule

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has unanimously adopted a new Zero-Emission Forklifts Regulation aimed at phasing out large spark-ignition (LSI) forklifts powered by…

Over 100 Rally for Clean Air As SCAQMD Passes Landmark Zero-Emission Rules

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. – Over 100 clean air advocates rallied outside the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) headquarters Friday, cheering the agency's passage of pioneering…

Community Turns Out to Oppose Decades of New Oil Drilling in Signal Hill

SIGNAL HILL, Calif. – Dozens of concerned residents turned out at a public hearing on Tuesday to oppose Signal Hill Petroleum’s proposed 20-year extension of oil drilling operations, which would…

Appeals Court Strikes Down Forest Service Approval of Gold Drilling in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court issued its opinion reversing the decision of a lower court that would have allowed exploratory drilling east of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. The…

Sierra Club, Department of Interior and Community Leaders Gather to Discuss proposed Chuckwalla National Monument

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. -- On Saturday, the Sierra Club and local leaders joined United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to discuss the effort to establish the proposed Chuckwalla National…

Sierra Club wins legal victory for clean air in Moreno Valley

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. — A Riverside County Superior Court judge sided with Sierra Club and the California Attorney General’s Office on Monday by ruling that the City of Moreno Valley violated…

California Public Utilities Commission Adopts Income-Graduated Fixed Charges

SAN FRANCISCO — Today, the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) voted 4-0 to lower volumetric (per-usage) rates and implement three tiers of monthly electric fixed charges: Tier 1…

California Leaders Applaud BLM Rule to Protect Local Areas

LOS ANGELES – After prioritizing extractive industries for the past 40 years, today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its final “Public Lands Rule” to balance and uphold its …