clean-energy

July 31, 2025

NANTUCKET, Ma. – This week, the town of Nantucket hosted a press conference to share concerns about the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project and demands for Avangrid, the project developer. 

Vineyard Wind 1 is already providing power for local homes and businesses. Once construction is completed, the 62 turbines will generate 806 megawatts of electricity and power over 400,000 homes. Vineyard Wind 1 is estimated to save New England $3.7 billion in energy costs over the project’s lifetime.

July 1, 2025

CALIFORNIA - Amid wildfire season and record-breaking summer temperatures, Sierra Club announces its support for the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative. After extensive analysis and stakeholder engagement, Sierra Club believes the Pathways Initiative represents a critical opportunity to advance clean energy through regional cooperation.

June 5, 2025

Washington, DC – Last night, Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released text of their section of Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” in the Senate.

May 22, 2025

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – Early this morning, Rep. Young Kim (CA-40) cast the deciding vote to advance Donald Trump’s massive budget reconciliation package that would endanger California resident’s clean air and water, fast-track reckless oil and gas leasing and development, and raise costs on working families—all to give more tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters.

May 20, 2025

Move comes as Republicans attempt to cut IRA funding through budget reconciliation

May 14, 2025

SIOUX CITY, IA - Today, Rep. Randy Feenstra, representing Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, voted to advance the House Ways and Means Committee’s budget reconciliation proposal, which included drastic cuts to clean energy, vehicles, and manufacturing project tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund tax breaks for Trump and his billionaire friends. 

May 14, 2025

Washington, D.C. - Today, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee advanced their partisan budget reconciliation proposal, which included drastic cuts to clean energy, clean vehicles, and manufacturing project tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund tax breaks for Trump and his billionaire friends. 

May 12, 2025

Washington, D.C. - Today, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee released their draft budget reconciliation proposal, which included drastic cuts to clean energy, vehicles, and manufacturing project tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund tax breaks for Trump and his billionaire friends. 

April 22, 2025

Cookeville, TN - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled two billboards in Cookeville calling on the Tennessee Valley Authority to finalize a long-term energy plan that prioritizes clean air and lower energy costs. 

March 13, 2025

The Trump-appointed EPA administrator has announced that his agency will cancel millions of dollars in loans that were set to go to Arkansas for rural solar projects meant to build cheaper energy and create hundreds of jobs.

January 24, 2025

Juno Beach, F.L. - Today, the President and CEO of NextEra Energy, John Ketchum, announced the energy company plans to add more gas plants to its fleet to fulfill Donald Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda. 

Additional gas plants would expose communities NextEra serves to worse air and water pollution, and all the illnesses associated with long-term exposure to such pollution. 

January 3, 2025

Today, the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released the final rule that will determine tax credits for clean hydrogen production. Section 45V, the Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit, was created by the Inflation Reduction Act in order to support the Department of Energy’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program and create investment certainty within the nascent industry that has the potential to reduce emissions in several hard-to-decarbonize sectors.