Press Releases

Environmental Groups Challenge Re-Issued Permit for Commonwealth LNG

CAMERON PARISH, La. - Today, three environmental groups filed a challenge to the reissued coastal use permit for the proposed Commonwealth LNG export facility.

House Passes SPEED Act, Failing to Lower Energy Costs or Speed Clean Energy Deployment

Today, the House of Representatives passed the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act,” or the SPEED Act. Rather than fixing the real barriers slowing clean energy projects, the SPEED Act weakens the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in ways that would do little to lower costs or accelerate clean energy, while making it easier for polluting projects to move forward without accountability.

Prairie Rivers Network and Sierra Club Illinois File Lawsuit Challenging Massive Federal Expansion of Illinois Coal Mining

Franklin County, Illinois - Today, Prairie Rivers Network and Sierra Club Illinois are suing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federally owned public power provider, to block the federal government from a massive expansion of coal mining in Illinois. 

Sierra Club: Rising Prices Directly Linked to Trump Tariffs, Cuts to Clean Energy

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released consumer price index data for September to November, showing a 2.7% increase in inflation for goods and services. BLS did not release an October report due to Republicans’ refusal to fund affordable healthcare, which ignited the longest government shutdown in history, which many economists argue distorts the data released today. Prices are up across the board and one of the driving factors of inflation is energy prices, which rose 4.2% over the year.

Illinois Transit Bill Includes ‘Transit to Trails’ Grant Program Expanding Bus Routes to Parks

Gov. Pritzker Signs SB 2111 Into Law

PJM Capacity Auction Ends with Record-High Costs, Again

Valley Forge, PA - Today, the nation’s largest grid operator PJM held its capacity auction for the 2027/2028 Delivery Year. The auction ended when prices reached the price cap despite failing to procure enough capacity to meet the one-event-in-10-years reliability standard of a 20% reserve margin. PJM only managed to procure a 14.8% reserve margin. 

House Committee Advances Dangerous Bill That Would Rewrite Endangered Species Act Beyond Recognition

Proposal from Rep. Westerman would gut another bedrock environmental law

Sierra Club Statement on Senate Committee’s Markup of Public Lands Bills

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considered 15 bills largely focusing on conservation, public lands, and wildfire prevention.

Among the bills considered during the markup session, the committee's first legislative markup since September, were the following:

Clean Competition Act Would Protect Clean American Manufacturers

Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Representative Suzan DelBene (D-WA) introduced the Clean Competition Act of 2025. The bill would boost clean, American manufacturing and cut industrial pollution in the United States and abroad.

Coal for Christmas: Local Advocacy Groups Deliver Coal, Protest Letters to JEA

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Today, local advocacy and climate groups delivered costly, polluting coal back to Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) Headquarters just in time for the holidays. Sierra Club Florida, CLEO Institute, NAACP, St.