With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has increased the serious health risks Minnesotans will face as a result of air and water pollution, in addition to a recent Public Utilities Commission decision that undermines the 100% Carbon Free law by continuing to allow some carbon emitting energy sources.
The Sierra Club has been involved in the legal fight for federal climate standards longer than any other organization.
Phoenix, AZ – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of people throughout the country, the Trump administration finalized decisions that severely gut decades of environmental progress.
DENVER – Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule revoking the basis for regulating greenhouse gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. The decision flies in the face of legal history and overwhelming scientific evidence establishing that the nation faces extraordinary threats from sources of pollution like power plants, vehicles, fossil fuel development, agriculture and more, which drive global warming.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Lee Zeldin will finalize a federal regulation that would obliterate the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Today, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, including the reversal of a ruling that has formed the backbone of climate advocacy for nearly two decades. Stemming from the first-ever lawsuit seeking federal greenhouse gas standards under the Clean Air Act–filed by the Sierra Club in 2003–and the resulting 2007 Mass v. EPA Supreme Court decision, the EPA’s endangerment finding established that greenhouse gas pollution could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. That finding serves as the legal basis for a number of crucial regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions, including regulations that limit power plant emissions, car emissions, and more.
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted in support of rescinding Donald Trump’s harmful tariffs on Canada. Six Republicans joined Democrats to pass the legislation. The vote comes as the United States is legally required to review the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, a trade deal signed by President Trump in his first term and improved with strong engagement from Congress.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Trump Administration announced its latest scheme to bail out the coal industry ordering up to $175 million in funds originally intended to support energy resiliency, efficiency, and greenhouse gas reductions in rural communities to instead help prop up a number of old, inefficient coal plants.
LOUISVILLE, KY. - On the heels of receiving an inaugural “Undisputed Champion of Coal” award from an industry-backed pro-coal group, President Trump has announced $175 million in taxpayer-funded handouts to seven coal plants, including LG&E and KU’s Ghent Generating Station. The money, originally intended to support energy resiliency, efficiency, and greenhouse gas reductions in rural communities, will now instead subsidize new, expensive equipment on the Ghent plant, a move that Sierra Club has already previously opposed.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - On the heels of receiving an inaugural “Undisputed Champion of Coal” award from an industry-backed pro-coal group, President Trump has announced $175 million in taxpayer-funded handouts to seven coal plants, including Appalachian Power’s Amos and Mountaineer plants and Monongahela Power’s Fort Martin.