Today, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Fisherman Involved in Sustaining our Heritage (FISH), and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the 38th Judicial District in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, challenging the coastal use permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy (LDCE) for the proposed Marais Pipeline project.
CUMBERLAND CITY, Tenn. — The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, has notified the Tennessee Valley Authority of the groups’ intent to sue the federal utility because the construction and operation of its newly-built Cumberland Gas Plant alongside the nearby coal plant violates the federal Clean Air Act.
Baton Rouge - After spending years as one of the nation’s biggest data center supporters, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has issued a hollow executive order calling for guardrails that would do far too little to protect Louisianans from the impacts of the very centers he has been courting.
Sacramento, CA – Yesterday, the California Attorney General and California Energy Commission (CEC) filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for its backroom deal that led to the cancellation of a major offshore wind project in exchange for out-of-state fossil fuel development.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sierra Club, as a leading member of the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, is excited to introduce the new One Million Kids Outdoors (1MKO) initiative today. The 1MKO initiative is a national movement that aims to get one million kids outdoors over the next year to transform their health and well-being.
RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced yesterday that Duke Energy lowered its proposed rate increase from 18 percent to 11.6 percent, demonstrating that the monopoly utility – which raked in nearly $5 billion in profits last year – will respond to robust public pressure and rein in its efforts to make even more money at the expense of captive ratepayers.
Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter called on the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to conduct a project-specific environmental justice analysis of Hyundai Steel’s proposed facility in Louisiana. The request comes after the company largely removed an initial environmental justice analysis from its revised permit application.
INDIANAPOLIS — Today, the Trump Administration and Department of Energy (DOE) announced yet another extension for the Culley and Schahfer coal-fired power plants since they were ordered to stay open at the end of 2025.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups today urged a federal court to move quickly in forcing an end to the Defense Department’s de facto ban on new wind energy projects.