Press Releases

MEMO: Real-World Benefits of the Build Back Better Act’s Historic Climate Investments

*** Senior Sierra Club policy staff and leadership, along with grassroots volunteers, are available to discuss the urgent need for Congress to pass the Build Back Better *** 

Sierra Club Launches Ad Campaign in Districts of Five Prior Democratic Holdouts on Build Back Better

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Sierra Club has launched an expansive ad campaign in leading news outlets across the five congressional districts of prior holdouts to passing President Biden’s Build Back Better Act. The ad campaign includes coordinated homepage and newsletters takeovers on Tuesday, November 16 of the Orlando Sentinel (Stephanie Murphy, FL-07), the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (Ed Case, HI-01), the Statesman Journal(Kurt Schrader, OR-05), POLITICO’s Trenton Brief (Josh Gottheimer, NJ-05) Sierra Club will take over all advertising on each homepage this Tuesday, November 16, ahead of this week’s crucial House vote on the Build Back Better Act.

Report: Xcel's Denver Gas Plants Exacerbate Environmental Injustice

This morning, Sierra Club released a report detailing how the two gas-fired power plants that Xcel Energy operates in Denver – Arapahoe and Cherokee – contribute to environmental injustice in the metro region. Both plants are located in low-income communities of color with higher-than-average health burdens, and they’re adding to the already disproportionately high amount of other industrial sources of pollution in those communities.

Sierra Club Statement on EPA Announcement on Aircraft Emissions Rule

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it won’t revisit a Trump administration rule on emissions standards for new airplanes, which doesn’t actually reduce greenhouse gas pollution. 

As EPA Administrator Regan Tours the Gulf South, Communities Call for an End to Oil and Gas Exports

Today, EPA Administrator Michael Regan kicked off a week-long tour through Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas to meet with marginalized communities and discuss environmental justice issues facing the region. During the tour, Gulf communities threatened by oil and gas exports, joined by environmental advocates, are calling on the EPA to protect frontline communities by stepping in and doing everything in its power to stop the expansion of fossil fuel exports.

Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Investments Will Create Jobs and Opportunity in Historic Coal Mining Regions

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law, which includes $11.3 billion in new Abandoned Mine Land (AML) funding. These investments will put thousands of people to work repairing land and waterways damaged by mining, treating polluted waters, sealing and filling abandoned mine entries, and developing erosion prevention measures to protect against dangerous land and mudslides.

President Biden Signs Billions in Funding for Public Transit, Rail, EV Charging

Congress Must Pass Build Back Better Act to Bolster Clean Transportation Investments & Deliver on Climate

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Biden will sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, known as the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which will include billions in funding for public transit, passenger rail, electric vehicle charging, electric school buses, and cleaning up dirty ports, important priorities for decarbonizing the nation’s most polluting sector. 

Declaración del Sierra Club sobre los Logros de COP26 y Qué Nos Depara el Futuro

Tras dos semanas de intensas negociaciones, la cumbre climática de las Naciones Unidas (COP26) finalizó en Glasgow durante el fin de semana. La reunión se celebró tras una serie de tormentas e inundaciones sin precedentes en Glasgow, un recordatorio de que la crisis climática afecta a todos los rincones del planeta.

Advocates Oppose Petition to Subsidize Fossil Fuels & Undermine Definition of ‘Zero-Emission’

New York — Today 25 environmental and environmental justice groups filed a response pushing back against a petition by the Independent Power Producers of New York (IPPNY) that seeks to classify fossil gas-fired power plants and hydrogen combustion as zero emissions power sources under the state’s Clean Energy Standard.

Sierra Club Statement on What Was Achieved at COP26 & Where We Go From Here

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND -- After two weeks of often intense negotiations, the annual United Nations climate summit (COP26) wrapped up in Glasgow today. The summit took place in the wake of record-breaking storms and flooding in Glasgow, a reminder that the climate crisis is affecting every corner of our planet. It also occurred amid the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, which led to limited and inequitable participation.