Washington, D.C. - Today, Sierra Club Senior Attorney Greg Wannier testified before a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Donald Trump’s illegal attempt to force retiring coal plants to stay online.
ATLANTA - The Department of Energy announced it will give a $26.5 billion loan to Southern Company to build the largest, most expensive gas fleet in the nation.
Washington, DC – Tonight, as costs for American families continue to soar and environmental and public health protections are weakened by his administration, Donald Trump delivered the first official State of the Union address of his second term.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Loren Blackford released the following statement:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Valley Authority stripped the public of another one of its powers, revising its National Environmental Policy Act to reduce or eliminate public involvement in TVA’s decisions.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium. Rolling back the new and more protective Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will allow coal- and oil-fired power plants to emit more damaging pollution that puts the public at greater risk of heart and lung disease, cancer, and even premature death, as well as causing severe neurological damage to fetuses and children.
ATLANTA - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium. Rolling back the new and more protective Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will allow coal- and oil-fired power plants to emit more damaging pollution that puts the public at greater risk of heart and lung disease, cancer, and even premature death, as well as causing severe neurological damage to fetuses and children.
DENVER - Today legislators introduced HB26-1226 aimed at reducing the impact of the Department of Energy's 202(c) dubious "emergency" order to keep the Craig 1 coal unit operating past its planned retirement date at the end of 2025. That executive order could cost ratepayers up to $85 million annually, according to one analysis.
ATLANTA - Despite clear opposition from Georgians, the Georgia Public Service Commission has refused to reconsider Georgia Power’s plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the nation to serve data centers.
With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has increased the serious health risks Minnesotans will face as a result of air and water pollution, in addition to a recent Public Utilities Commission decision that undermines the 100% Carbon Free law by continuing to allow some carbon emitting energy sources.
The Sierra Club has been involved in the legal fight for federal climate standards longer than any other organization.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Today, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, including the reversal of a ruling that has formed the backbone of climate advocacy for nearly two decades. Stemming from the first-ever lawsuit seeking federal greenhouse gas standards under the Clean Air Act–filed by the Sierra Club in 2003–and the resulting 2007 Mass v. EPA Supreme Court decision, the EPA’s endangerment finding established that greenhouse gas pollution could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. That finding serves as the legal basis for a number of crucial regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions, including regulations that limit power plant emissions, car emissions, and more.
NASHVILLE – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.