ATLANTA - Today, the Trump administration announced its “Coal Day 2.0” agenda, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining leases and extending compliance deadlines and rolling back safeguards against air and water pollution.
NASHVILLE, TENN. - Today, the Trump administration announced its “Coal Day 2.0” agenda, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining leases and extending compliance deadlines and rolling back safeguards against air and water pollution.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Trump administration announced its “Coal Day 2.0” agenda, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining leases and extending compliance deadlines and rolling back safeguards against air and water pollution.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, the Sierra Club released its annual Dirty Truth Report, which grades 75 utilities across the country on their plans to retire coal plants by 2030, not build new gas plants through 2035, and transition to clean energy through 2035.
ATLANTA - In a year filled with deception and broken promises, Georgia Power is now one of the dirtiest utilities in the nation, according to a report released by the Sierra Club today.
RICHMOND, VA - Dominion Energy has once again ranked among the dirtiest utilities in the nation, according to the Sierra Club’s annual Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges report. The 2025 analysis finds that Dominion’s plans for renewable energy are not only failing to keep pace with national peers— they are abandoning climate and environmental justice commitments.
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 bills – H.R. 1047, H.R. 3015, and H.R. 3062 – would clear the way for more dirty fossil fuel infrastructure and development and stymy investment in clean, affordable energy. Sierra Club joined more than 30 groups in signing a letter to Members of Congress opposing the bills.
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Santee Cooper has released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan update, rolling back the retirement of several coal plants while refusing to invest in sufficient low-cost renewable energy.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today, the California legislature passed a historic bill to create a west-wide day-ahead energy market that will unlock greater potential for renewable energy, while lowering energy costs across the West. AB825 will allow CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market to be run by an independent body to ensure a broad market that includes as many utilities as possible.
Washington, DC – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal that would effectively eliminate the agency’s longstanding tool to track greenhouse gas emissions, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
PHOENIX, ARIZ - Thursday, the Arizona Corporation voted 5-0 to proceed with repealing Arizona’s Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST), despite the significant benefits it provides to ratepayers and strong opposition by clean energy advocates. The REST rules have incentivized development of clean, low-cost renewable energy like solar power and have brought investment and jobs to Arizona.
Today, nine public advocacy groups led by the Sierra Club and Earthjustice filed a petition for review at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in response to the Department of Energy’s unlawful and unreasonable extension of the J.H. Campbell coal plant, and the department’s failure to respond to the groups’ earlier request for rehearing on the department’s emergency order.