April 8, 2017
CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Sunday announced a commitment to transition Chicago municipal buildings and operations to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2025.
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March 20, 2017
MADISON, Wisc. - Today, the Madison Common Council formally approved the city’s commitment to transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy across all sectors including electricity, heating, and transportation. Madison represents the first city in Wisconsin and the biggest city in the Midwest to make a community-wide 100 percent clean energy commitment.
April 6, 2017
Roswell, GA: Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Jon Ossoff in the special election for Georgia’s 6th congressional district.
March 6, 2017
Baltimore, M.D. —In conjunction with an act from the House of Delegates last week, the Maryland State Senate voted today to support energy efficiency and codify the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) updates to the EmPOWER Maryland program. The 2008 EmPOWER Maryland legislation established landmark energy efficiency targets and programs through 2015 with huge successes in energy efficiency services like appliance and lighting rebates, home energy checkups and behavior-based energy saving programs.
April 5, 2017
Baltimore, M.D. —After a month of action from the Maryland House of Delegates and the State Senate, the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) updates to the EmPOWER Maryland program became law today despite not being signed by Governor Hogan. The legislation, a natural extension of the 2008 legislation of the PSC’s July 2015 Order, will ensure the state continues its energy efficiency investments by requiring utilities to reduce electricity usage 2 percent annually by 2020.
March 2, 2017
CANTON, Miss.. -- A Rally and March with Nissan workers, civil rights leaders, elected officials, including U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, U.S.Congressman Bennie Thompson, actor Danny Glover, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, will take place to highlight issues of workplace safety, low wages and job security at the Nissan plant.
May 17, 2017
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Mayor Philip Levine issued a new proclamation on Wednesday endorsing a goal of powering Miami Beach entirely with clean and renewable energy.
Miami Beach is among the cities in the United States most endangered by the threats of climate change like rising sea levels, and the measure builds on Mayor Levine’s record of leadership on climate and clean energy in South Florida.
May 10, 2017
Annapolis, M.D. —The Public Service Commission (PSC) granted Skipjack Offshore Energy and U.S. Wind offshore wind renewable energy credits (ORECs) today enabling them to move forward with their proposals to build 368 megawatts of offshore wind, located off the coast of Ocean City and and Delaware, and creating 9,700 jobs in the process. The approval of these projects puts Maryland in the running for the nation’s largest offshore wind farms.
May 9, 2017
HANOVER, N.H.. – The Town of Hanover, New Hampshire last night voted to establish a goal of transitioning to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050. The article approved at Tuesday’s town meeting sets a community-wide goal of transitioning to 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 and a 2050 goal of transitioning heating and transportation to run on clean, renewable sources of energy.
May 8, 2017
Washington, DC -- Late yesterday, Donald Trump announced two nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Neil Chatterjee and Rob Powelson.
In the upcoming months, FERC is expected to consider a number of pipelines, LNG terminals, and proposals from electric grid operators to pay power plant owners more and increase costs to consumers.
In response, Sierra Club Global Climate Policy Director John Coequyt released the following statement:
May 3, 2017
Brooklyn, NY -- After the New York MTA announced the plan to purchase 200 diesel buses to mitigate the closure of the L train, the Sierra Club released a letter to Governor Cuomo and the CEO of the NYMTA signed by 100 Brooklyn businesses in support of clean, quiet, zero-emission buses for Brooklyn and throughout the MTA service territory.
May 1, 2017
INDIANAPOLIS – Today, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law Senate Bill 309, the bill authored by Sen.