Washington, D.C. -- Today President Joe Biden nominated Willie Phillips to fill a vacant position on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the nation’s independent energy regulator. FERC will play a key role in helping transform our power system and lead the equitable transition away from fossil fuels and toward the clean electricity system needed to address climate change.
Phillips is currently Chairman of the District of Columbia Public Service Commission and former Assistant General Counsel for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.
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OAKLAND, CA - September 9, 2021 - Today, Sierra Club’s national magazine, Sierra, released its fifteenth annual “Cool Schools” ranking of North America’s greenest colleges and universities. This year, Sierra received submissions from a record-breaking 328 schools across the United States and Canada
Sierra Club and Potomac Riverkeeper Network, in accordance with the Clean Water Act, filed suit against VEPCO, a subsidiary of Dominion for violating and continuing to violate “an effluent standard or limitation” and continuing to violate its temperature discharge limits at its Mount Storm Power Station.
Hartford, CT -- One day after Connecticut acknowledged it is failing to meet its climate pollution reduction targets, the Energy Efficiency Board (EEB) moved forward with a 3 year plan that will continue subsidizing fossil fuel equipment and appliances.
As Congress Prepares to Move Forward with Reconciliation Bill, Nonprofits and Legislators in Arizona Urge Electric Sector Decarbonization Through a Clean Electricity Payment Program (CEPP)
St. Louis, MO -- A broad coalition of organizations are uniting to oppose Ameren Missouri’s proposed $299 million rate increase for its customers, thousands of whom continue to struggle during the COVID-19 pandemic as the monopoly electric utility’s stock price and shareholder dividends soar. Ameren Missouri’s request for a rate increase with the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC), if approved, would add $12 per month for the average residential electric customer and $4 per month for the average gas customer.
Kayaker Graham Jordinson, set out on July 18th from Three Forks, Montana, to embark on a 2,341 mile journey down the Missouri River to its confluence with the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The aim of his journey is to raise awareness about the detrimental impacts coal fired power plants have on our environment, climate, and water resources. Sioux City will be his first scheduled stop on his coal plant tour, where he will meet with local Sierra Club members to talk about MidAmerican’s George Neal North and South coal plants.
ALBANY, NY— Today, Governor Hochul's Department of Environmental Conservation initiated a rulemaking for the adoption of the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule, which will deliver zero-emission trucks to New York State, helping to slash diesel emissions, improve air quality, and spur the electric truck market.
Sierra Club, Prairie Rivers Network, and the Springfield Branch of the NAACP held a press conference today in the aftermath of an incident at the Dallman coal plant owned by the City of Springfield, and which released a lung-burning coal ash dust cloud into the air. City Water, Light, and Power’s Dallman coal plant malfunctioned on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 31, 2021.