WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to further weaken the Voting Rights Act. The case, Brnovich v. the Democratic National Committee, imposes a cramped standard for proving a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that threatens to undermine the Act's core purpose: to eliminate discriminatory voting practices of all kinds. That decision arrives as 48 states have introduced nearly 390 bills restricting access to the polls this year alone.
MAPLE GROVE, MN -- Earlier today, Great River Energy (GRE) announced that the utility would be selling its Coal Creek Station power plant to Rainbow Energy Center instead of retiring it as planned.
Trenton -- Today New Jersey Board of Public Utilities awarded offshore wind solicitations to two projects that combined will develop offshore wind capacity of 2,658 MW - the largest offshore wind procurement in the history of the country. The first project will be completed by Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project 1 LLC, which is a joint venture between EDF RE Offshore Development LLC and Shell New Energies US LLC. The second project will be completed by Ocean Wind 2 LLC, a direct subsidiary of Ørsted Offshore North America Inc.
La Corte Suprema dictó hoy que las compañías privadas pueden adueñarse de terrenos estatales para nuevas infraestructuras de gas fósil, así favoreciendo la construcción del controvertido gasoducto PennEast.
Washington, DC -- Today the Supreme Court ruled that private companies can take state land for new fracked gas pipelines, which likely speeds the construction of a controversial project that threatens the Potomac River.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled that private companies can take state land for new fracked gas pipelines, likely speeding the construction of the controversial PennEast pipeline project.
Washington, DC – The Sierra Club, together with NRDC Action Fund, Oxfam America, Greenpeace USA, Friends of the Earth Action, Food and Water Watch, Oil Change International, DNC Environment and Climate Crisis Council, and a wide range of health, environmental, and other groups across the nation, are calling on Congress to pass significant cuts to fossil fuel subsidies embedded in the tax code.
Oakland, CA— As part of its 125-year journey, Sierra —the national magazine of Sierra Club, the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States—has unveiled a dynamic redesign.
On Oregon’s hottest day in recorded history, the Oregon Senate passed an ambitious bill to transition the state’s electricity to 100% clean energy by 2040 while centering benefits for communities of color and rural, coastal, and low-income communities and workers. The 100% Clean Energy for All bill (House Bill 2021) passed with 16-11 votes. With the passage of this bill, Oregon will have the fastest timeline to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the electric sector in the United States.
ST. PAUL -- Earlier today, Xcel Energy announced that it will drop its plans to construct a new 800 MW fossil gas plant, known as the Sherco combined cycle gas plant. Xcel included the gas plant in their most recent proposed integrated resource plan (IRP), filed in June 2020.