Press Releases

April 1, 2025

Yesterday, PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power which serves Wyoming, released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), significantly scaling back and slow-walking investments in renewable energy, instead prioritizing expensive and volatile fossil fuels. The IRP, meant to guide the utility’s energy procurement strategy for the coming decades, represents a stark step backwards from cost-effective clean energy solutions that could lower customer bills and boost local economies.

March 31, 2025

HARTFORD, Conn. – Today, a coalition of environmental organizations, alongside community advocates for climate and energy justice, hosted a press conference at the Legislative Office Building. After, 70 people marched to the Capitol Area System where attendees participated in a die-in, laying on the ground to represent the life-threatening consequences of gas expansion. 

March 31, 2025

Denver, CO - Last Friday the District of Colorado dismissed a lawsuit from Colorado corporate landlord groups aimed at overturning performance standards for large buildings, ruling the plaintiffs were unable to meet the threshold requirement to pro

March 31, 2025

Washington, D.C - The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has taken aim at its next government agency to shutter—the Office of Mine Safety and Health Administration.

March 31, 2025

RALEIGH, N.C. – The Sierra Club released a report today on the impacts of Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP) on communities in North Carolina, including low-income and communities of color.

March 28, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the White House announced an executive order demanding the Secretary of the Interior review and reinstate public monuments, statues, and memorials that were previously removed or updated to reflect a more inclusive and accurate accounting of history. The order also bans any monuments and other markers that might criticize colonial figures.

March 28, 2025

— Yesterday, the D.C. District Court found unlawful a 73-million acre offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico held by the Interior Department in March 2023.

March 27, 2025

Sierra Club Calls Move a ‘Dangerous Retreat From Investor Protection’

March 27, 2025

Washington, DC – This week, the Trump administration released the intelligence community’s Annual Threat Assessment report that, for the first time in more than a decade, fails to mention the climate crisis, the increased threat of extreme weather, or the role rising temperatures play on health, food security, or global geopolitics. 

March 27, 2025

Sierra Club applauds IMPACT Act for helping to decarbonize cement, concrete, asphalt industries