April 16, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration yesterday announced an emergency transfer of nearly 110,000 acres of land along the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of the Interior to the Army.
Press Releases April 2025
April 16, 2025
Washington, DC - Today, the Army Corps of Engineers announced the Line 5 tunnel project and other fossil fuel infrastructure permits will be fast-tracked without sufficient environmental review.
April 16, 2025
Washington, DC – Late yesterday, Judge Mary McElroy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island—appointed to the bench by Donald Trump in 2019—ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully withheld funding when it unilaterally froze awards and grants authorized by the landmark Inflation Reduction Act climate law and the bipartisan infrastructure law.
April 15, 2025
Washington, DC - Today, the D.C. Circuit Court sided with the Department of Energy after Sierra Club and Earthjustice challenged the criteria the agency used to issue an export permit for Alaska LNG.
April 15, 2025
Texas – Yesterday, the Trump Administration gave six coal-burning power plants in Texas an extra two years to reduce their emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants that contaminate our air, water, and soil. Several of the nation’s top mercury-polluting power plants are in Texas and are included in the exemption.
April 15, 2025
Knoxville, TN - Four plants in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s fleet—Shawnee, Gallatin, Cumberland, and Kingston—have received presidential exemptions from the Trump Administration, delaying critical safeguards against these coal plants emitting hazardous metals in particulates and other air toxics into the Tennessee Valley’s air and water.
April 15, 2025
Jefferson City, Mo – Following executive orders on coal last week, three utilities received an exemption so they can continue releasing mercury and other toxins into Missouri’s air and water at five different coal plants.
April 15, 2025
Indianapolis, Ind – After opposition from many organizations all session, the Indiana Senate passed the Energy Inflation Act today. House Bill 1007 will soon head to Governor Braun following a final vote in the House on the amended version of the bill.
April 15, 2025
ATLANTA -– Today, the Trump Administration gave permission to two Georgia coal-fired power plants to ignore common-sense safeguards that curb emissions of mercury and air toxics and protect Americans from the deadly health effects of coal pollution.
April 15, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Trump’s Administration exempted 68 coal-fired power plants from lifesaving safeguards that curb emissions of mercury and air toxics and protect Americans from the deadly health effects of coal pollution. The list of plants exempted includes nine of the nation’s worst offenders for mercury emissions.
April 14, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club and a group of environmental and science organizations, represented by Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program and Public Citizen Litigation Group, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s removal of public information from climate and environmental justice federal agency websites.
April 14, 2025
BOSTON – Today, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced a proposed two-year delay to the state’s previously adopted Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) regulation, delaying crucial health benefits the rule would bring to residents.