KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Last night, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County voted 8-2 to approve Accelergen’s proposed East Side Energy Storage project, which at 300 MW when complete will be among the newest and largest utility-scale energy storage systems in Kansas.
Phoenix, Ariz. - Today, Sierra Club released a new web tool that shows the deadly impacts of coal-fired power plants on the health of people throughout the United States.
Salt Lake City - Today, Sierra Club released a new web tool that shows the deadly impacts of coal-fired power plants on Americans’ health. The updated Out of Control: The Deadly Impact of Coal Pollution - 2026 web tool provides county by county, plant by plant, and utility by utility data on the severe negative health effects of air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, and Earthjustice lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging the agency’s approval of West Virginia’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan has advanced in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Sierra Club released a new web tool that shows that every year, approximately 6,500 Americans die prematurely from illnesses linked to coal air pollution.
Charlotte, NC -- On Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM, dozens of concerned residents are expected to join advocates in the courtyard of Mecklenburg County Courthouse for a rally in response to Duke Energy’s request to increase residential customers’ bills in North Carolina by about 18%. The rally, organized by the Sierra Club and its partners, will precede a North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) hearing where commissioners will accept public testimony about the increase. The Duke Energy request comes at a time when affordability and utility costs dominate the national discourse.
Salt Lake City - The EPA on Tuesday proposed rescinding a Biden-era ruling to reclassify Utah's Wasatch Front from “serious” nonattainment of the 2015 ozone standards to mere “moderate” nonattainment, significantly decreasing required pollution reductions. The proposal downplays local emissions, shifting blame to foreign sources instead of reining in local emissions. EPA has issued similar proposed rulings in other states across the West.
Washington, D.C. - Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to give the coal industry access to potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, even as the industry has been in decline for nearly two decades.
RALEIGH — More than 133 million cubic yards of coal ash at North Carolina coal-fired power plants, with 40.2 million cubic yards at the Duke Energy’s Roxboro plant alone, could more seriously impact local waterways after the EPA moved last week to seriously weaken rules that have protected waters from toxic coal ash for over a decade. In response, the Sierra Club is urging North Carolinians to share concerns at an upcoming EPA hearing and submit public comments.
TOPEKA, Kansas – Today, the Shawnee County Commission voted 3-0 to approve an ordinance for utility-scale solar that moves beyond their initial moratorium toward a comprehensive, permitting framework , expanding the opportunity for cleaner, cheaper energy sources to be built quickly at a time when energy affordability is top-of-mind for many households.
Phoenix, Ariz. - Today, the Trump administration announced plans to gut critical protections against deadly coal ash pollution – one of the most toxic industrial waste streams in the country, taking direct aim at the health of American communities.
Salt Lake City - Today, the Trump administration announced plans to gut critical protections against deadly coal ash pollution – one of the most toxic industrial waste streams in the country, taking direct aim at the health of American communities.