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New Report: 2021’s Winter Storm Uri Didn’t Need To Be So Deadly and Expensive

AUSTIN, TEXAS -- A new report published today by the Sierra Club identifies key lessons to be learned from 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, which left over seven hundred people dead and caused approximately $200 billion in damages.

In Yet Another Significant Blow to MVP, Army Corps of Engineers Signals Stream Crossing Permit Will Be Indefinitely Delayed Following Latest Court Decision

This week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers committed to withhold a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) at least until the project has a valid Endangered Species Act biological opinion.

Endangering Communities, Oil and Gas Commission Considering Request to Allow More Powerful Fracking-Driven Earthquakes For Injection Well Operator

AWMS Water Solutions of Warren, a company that ran a fracking waste injection well, has requested the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission amend an order from the Department of Natural Resources’ Oil and Gas Resources Division (ODNR), and raise the threshold for earthquakes for an automatic shutdown, which would allow for more powerful earthquakes before it must shut down.

One Step Closer to a Clean Energy Future for Xcel Customers

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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Federal Court Invalidates Another Key Permit in Endangered Species Act Case, Casting Serious Doubt on the Future of Mountain Valley Pipeline

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit invalidated the biological opinion and incidental take statement issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Environmental Groups Seek to Defend Virginia’s Denial of Air Permit for MVP in Court

The Sierra Club and Appalachian Voices, represented by Appalachian Mountain Advocates, moved to intervene in a lawsuit to help defend the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board’s denial of an air permit for the proposed Lambert Compressor station.

Magnolia Power’s Proposed Gas Power Plant Will Pollute Baton Rouge Region

Baton Rouge, LA - Magnolia Power’s proposed gas plant will release more than 2.5 million tons of greenhouse gases annually into the Baton Rouge region’s air, including hundreds of tons of harmful particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide.

Future of Mountain Valley Pipeline Called into Question as Fracked Gas Project Receives Another Crucial Setback from Fourth Circuit

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit invalidated the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approvals for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Sierra Club Petitions Environmental Protection Agency to Deny Driftwood LNG’s Operating Permit for Violating Clean Air Act

Yesterday, Sierra Club filed a petition to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deny Driftwood LNG’s Title V operating permit request, which would allow it to construct and operate a massive industrial facility consisting of five fracked gas liquefaction trains and associated equipment in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Driftwood LNG is one of several large polluting facilities being approved in Southwest Louisiana that would take fracked gas from pipelines, turn it into liquid and put it on large tankers for export to the global market.

Texas LNG Fracked Gas Deal With Enbridge Spells Disaster for South Texas Communities and Environment

Today, the Glenfarne Group's proposed Texas LNG project at the Port of Brownsville entered into a 20-year deal to buy 720 million cubic feet of fracked gas per day from the existing Enbridge's Valley Crossing Pipeline

Sierra Club Statement: API Report Misleads on Energy Independence

Washington, DC – Today, the American Petroleum Institute released its annual “State of American Energy” report. In the report, API calls for expanded oil and gas drilling and loosened regulations, claiming that these policy changes are necessary to ensure low prices and energy independence. 

Freezing temperatures disrupt Texas gas supply, pollute communities

Earlier this week, gas supply companies in West Texas released excessive levels of pollution on at least 18 occasions as a result of equipment failure and freezing temperatures. Nearly a year after the massive gas supply and power failure during Winter Storm Uri that left hundreds of Texans dead and millions of Texans in the dark, the incidents show that our fossil fuel-dependent energy system continues to be unreliable, polluting, and unprepared for the impacts of the climate crisis.