BROOKFIELD, Ct. -- On May 30 and 31, fourteen Sierra Club Connecticut and Sunrise New Haven members and supporters completed the Ride to End Fossil Fuels, a 100 mile bike ride across the state in protest of methane gas expansion projects.
Proposal would leave investors with less information about climate risks while advancing legal theory that could weaken corporate disclosure more broadly
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Yesterday, Jacksonville residents joined advocates and environmental leaders from across the country to participate in a public hearing regarding EPA’s attempt to roll back its Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) rule, a move which experts warn would put communities, waterways, and public health at greater risk.
ATLANTA - Today, despite the efforts of two commissioners, the Georgia Public Service Commission agreed to allow Georgia Power to continue automatically passing along all of its fuel costs to ratepayers rather than creating an incentive for the utility company to better manage fuel costs.
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club released more than 35,000 comments submitted to the National Park Service in response to Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash history on public lands via the executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – In the past month, 304 West Virginians have submitted comments to Governor Patrick Morrisey expressing concerns over a $1.44 billion U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) loan to West Virginia utilities to refurbish six unnamed coal-fired power plants, extending their lives by up to 20 years. Regardless of how long the plants manage to continue operating, payments on the DOE loan will be passed on to West Virginians’ electric bills for decades.
INDIANAPOLIS – NIPSCO GenCo recently signed a 12-year contract with Halldor Energy Company to power new Google (Michigan City) and Amazon data centers with its Merom coal-fired power plant.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Sierra Club released new analysis and interactive dashboard that shows the staggeringly high energy burden low-income households are facing across the country.
Albany, NY -- New York lawmakers and the public were given their first look at the Transportation and Economic Development (TED) section of NY’s $268.5 billion state budget, mere hours before voting, concluding a secretive and one-sided negotiation process that delayed the State’s fiscal plan by nearly two months.
Representatives from the Good Neighbors Louisiana coalition dropped in on Hyundai’s offices in Gonzales to present the company with a list of demands regarding its proposed $5.8 billion steel mill in Donaldsonville, as well as comments filed with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) about the company’s failure to establish safeguards on toxic dust from transportation and construction.