Press Releases

March 19, 2025

Move Raises Concerns About Growing Systemic Financial Risks

March 19, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Department of Energy conditionally approved exports from one of Venture Global's controversial liquefied methane gas export projects, CP2 LNG, despite the devastating effects the facility would have on local communities, climate, and energy prices nationwide.

March 19, 2025

Today, Donald Trump is meeting with oil and gas executives, including members of the American Petroleum Institute, at the White House.

March 18, 2025

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit today affirmed the public’s right to access millions of acres of public land across the West via corner crossing. Conservation and environmental justice groups, who filed an amicus brief in the case last year, celebrated today’s decision.

March 18, 2025

Washington, D.C. - Last night, Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that he is “authorizing [his] Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL.”

March 17, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced joint plans to explore repurposing federal public lands for residential development.

March 17, 2025

This weekend, reports emerged that Donald Trump is planning to take action to eliminate two national monuments in California.

March 17, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Today, Sierra Club and West Virginia residents Bruce Perrone and Rosanna Long have successfully negotiated a legal settlement ending a series of costly coal directives issued by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC).

March 14, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, the United States Senate passed the House Republican government funding measure that makes drastic cuts to essential services the American people rely on, dismantles critical environmental protections, and sacrifices the health and safety of American families all to provide bigger handouts and kickbacks to corporate polluters.

Joining Republicans to advance the measure procedurally were Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats. 

March 14, 2025

Washington, D.C. - The Sierra Club and Appalachian Voices, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a rehearing request regarding the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee’s approval of PJM’s Resource Reliability Initiative. The RRI would allow large gas-fired power plants to jump the interconnection queue, bypassing renewable energy projects that have been waiting in the queue for over six years.