Press Releases

October 20, 2025

The Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal from businessman Fred Eshelman in his lawsuit, Iron Bar Holdings v. Cape, which asserted a trespass claim against hunters who accessed public land via “corner crossing” near Elk Mountain, Wyo.

October 20, 2025

Staff at agencies including Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service would be impacted

October 20, 2025

Raleigh, N.C. – The North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) approved Duke Energy’s second new gas-burning power plant on Hyco Lake in Person County, despite pushback from Person County residents and Duke Energy customers.

October 17, 2025

Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC withdraw principles published in 2023

October 16, 2025

Washington, DC – As the Trump administration continues to undo federal regulations that protect our air and water, including proposals to eliminate standards for vehicle emissions and revoke the 2009 endangerment finding, the Sierra Club today released 952 pages of emails between EPA officials and external organizations provided in response to the environmental organization’s Freedom of Information Act request.

October 16, 2025

Information will be updated regularly as pensions change their guidelines

October 15, 2025

WASHINGTON – A coalition of local fisherfolk, community members and leaders, and public interest organizations filed their opening brief this week in the U.S. Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit challenging FERC’s approval of Virginia-based Venture Global’s massive Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and feeder pipeline in southwest Louisiana. The brief argues, among other things, that FERC failed to perform the core balancing the Natural Gas Act requires—downplaying or evading significant, concrete harms to local industry, communities, and air quality. 

October 15, 2025

ATLANTA - Environmental groups urged the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to deny the air permit for Georgia Power’s proposed new methane gas electric-generating units at Plant Bowen to protect the health and environment of Georgians.

October 14, 2025

Film chronicles Detroit high school students traveling to Yosemite National Park for first time

October 14, 2025

CAMERON PARISH, LA – A Louisiana state court terminated the coastal use permit for the proposed Commonwealth LNG export facility, finding state officials violated the Louisiana Constitution by failing to consider the environmental impacts on the surrounding communities of color and low-income communities.