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Experts and Advocates Highlight the Impacts of Chip Production

Phoenix, AZ - On Wednesday, October 8, 2025, more than 75 academic experts, environmental and community advocates, and labor leaders gathered for The Dark Side of the Chip conference in downtown…

Groups Support Senators’ Attempt to Rollback Trump’s Sham Energy Emergency

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate failed to advance a resolution, introduced by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), that would repeal the sham energy emergency executive order…

Sierra Club Blasts Report of "Concierge, White Glove Service” for Fossil Fuel Companies

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A report from the Washington Post yesterday, detailed the lengths to which the Trump administration is catering to fossil fuel companies, offering “concierge, white glove”…

Sierra Club Reaction: New FERC Commissioners Confirmed in Package Vote

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm a pair of Trump nominees, David LaCerte and Laura Swett, as commissioners to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The nominations were…

House Republicans Pass Series of Dirty Energy Bills

WASHINGTON, DC - This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed three energy bills that will drastically increase pollution, harm public health, and lead to higher energy prices. The…

Attacks on Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards Are Bad for Grid Reliability & Consumers

Washington, DC - Today, during an Energy & Commerce Subcommittee hearing, Republican members of the subcommittee attacked appliance energy efficiency standards, a key tool to keep the…

Groups Ask Court to Block Trump EPA Rule That Delays Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution

Washington, DC - A dozen health, environment and community groups are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn a Trump EPA Rule delaying the 2024 methane standards for…

Permitting Legislation Introduced to Limit the National Environmental Policy Act & Boost Dirty Fossil Fuels

Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Bruce Westerman (R-AK) and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced permitting legislation that would dangerously restrict reviews of fossil fuel projects…

Groups file challenge against FERC’s unlawful, blanket suspension of own construction regulation

Washington, DC – A coalition of public interest groups, landowners, and fishermen filed a challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ‘waiver order’ that allows FERC to avoid its…

Trump’s Army Corps Hands Industry Blank Check to Harm Nation’s Waters

Washington, DC — The Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club and Waterkeeper Alliance today submitted comments strongly condemning the U.S. Army Corps of…