MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – On Wednesday, January 7, Sierra Club West Virginia, alongside local quilter CJ Sews, launched the “Quilting for Community” project at Morgantown art gallery The Co-Op. Over 55 people attended the Kick-Off, the first of many scheduled bi-weekly communal quilting events throughout January and February.
Washington, DC – Tonight, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Loren Blackford released the following statement:
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would once again delay enforcement of regional haze guidelines and give states a three year extension to submit plans to clean up harmful air pollution at national parks and improve public health.
DENVER— Yesterday, the Trump administration issued an “emergency” order to force utilities to operate Craig Unit 1 against their will, past the Dec. 31 retirement deadline that the utilities had decided upon and their state regulators had approved. Trump’s actions to prop up an uneconomic coal plant will drive up the cost of electricity in Colorado and throughout the West. Craig Unit 1 is owned by three Colorado utilities–Tri-State, Xcel, and PRPA–along with PacifiCorp and Salt River Power.
INDIANAPOLIS – Today, as Americans are preparing for the holidays, the Trump administration issued an ‘emergency’ order to forcibly and illegally extend operations of F.B. Culley and R.M. Schahfer coal plants past their scheduled retirement, based on a sham reliability crisis that does not exist. The high cost to keep these aging coal plants online to, in part, power AI data centers are expected to be passed onto Hoosier families and small businesses.
Proposed rules would undermine nation's most successful conservation law
NATIONAL — Trump’s Department of the Interior just halted construction on all five offshore wind projects underway in the United States. The pauses impact these projects: Vineyard Wind 1, Revolution Wind, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind 1.
KINGSTON, Tenn. - Families and allies of cleanup workers are carrying on their legacy for the 17th anniversary of the Kingston Coal Ash Spill, the first anniversary since the creation of a historic marker for the tragedy.
SUPERIOR, Wis. — Today, in a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission filing by Minnesota Power, the company announced that it will withdraw from the proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant project, which it had been developing with Dairyland Power Cooperative (based in Wisconsin) and Basin Electric Power Cooperative (based in North Dakota).
RALEIGH, N.C. - Today, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has approved the water and air permits for Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project pipeline.