Boston, MA – The grid operator for New England, ISO-NE, has decided to delay fixing a rule that makes it harder for renewable energy projects to replace unneeded fossil fuel power plants on the grid. Last week, the grid operator, along with the region’s largest utility companies, voted to delay making the urgent reform to the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) by two more years in a move that will keep open aging fossil fuel plants that continue polluting communities across the region and unnecessarily charging customers on their bills.
El Presidente Biden anunció hoy que Tritium, un fabricante australiano de cargadores de vehículos eléctricos, inaugurará su primera instalación en Lebanon, Tennessee, la cual fabricará hasta 30.000 cargadores rápidos al año y creará 500 empleos locales.
ST PAUL, MN -- Earlier today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved Xcel Energy’s integrated resource plan (IRP), a long-range plan for how the utility intends to provide electricity to its ratepayers in the coming decades. In doing so, the PUC took a significant step towards a Minnesota that is powered by 100% clean and renewable energy, although there is much work that still remains to be done.
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EL PASO, TEXAS / LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO-- Recently, a coalition of environmental and community groups–including Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Chaparral Community Coalition for Health and Environment, Familias Unidas del Chamizal, Earthworks, Sunrise El Paso, and Sunset Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association–filed comments with the Texas Commission on Environment
La Corte de Distrito de DC invalidó anoche la decisión del Departamento del Interior (DI) de ofrecer 80 millones de acres del Golfo de México para arrendamientos petroleros y gasíferos, una victoria crucial en la defensa de las comunidades de la región y del planeta contra el empeoramiento de la crisis climática.
ATLANTA, GA – Today, the Sierra Club is announcing its intention to participate in the 2022 Georgia Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process. During this process, Georgia Power (owned by Southern Company) will propose its plan for how it will procure energy over the next two decades, which must be approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC).
Albany, New York — Against the backdrop of surging COVID-19 infections and increasingly severe climate change events, Governor Hochul delivered a State of the State address that made significant commitments to advance clean drinking water, restore wetlands and natural habitats, advance renewable energy, ramp up electric vehicle infrastructure and protect public health from harmful emissions that are intensifying the climate crisis.
Según un informe de Reuters, Toyota se ha convertido en la mayor empresa automotriz de Estados Unidos, al sobrepasar a GM en ventas en 2021. GM había sido el líder nacional desde 1931.
Mientras el senado vuelve a sesionar, el Sierra Club urge a los líderes parlamentarios a cumplir con la promesa de la mayoría democrática y a aprobar urgentemente legislación para reconstruir mejor y proteger los derechos del votante, en medio de la incesante obstrucción de los congresistas republicanos.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció hoy su regla final de estándares de limpieza de vehículos, la cual reducirá las emisiones del sector transporte y protegerá la salud pública y el clima reforzando el rigor de emisiones a partir de vehículos de 2023 a 2026.
Entre consultas técnicas con la parlamentaria del Senado y negociaciones con actores claves en Washington, continúa el progreso de la Build Back Better Act (Ley para Reconstruir Mejor) pese al total obstruccionismo de los congresistas republicanos.
AUSTIN, TX -- Today, a coalition of Sierra Club members, supporters, and allied organizations including Texas Campaign for the Environment, and the Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience (CEER) submitted a petition with over four thousand signatures to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and almost two dozen people shared in-person testimony in front of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) of Texas, demanding that Governor Abbott, the PUC, and the