September 23, 2019
ARLINGTON, VA -- On Saturday, the Arlington County Board unanimously voted to adopt a new Community Energy Plan (CEP) after a two-year review and update.
Press Releases
September 23, 2019
As a result of a legal challenge to a massive proposed petrochemical facility in Belmont County, the company behind the project will implement several critical air pollution concerns that state regulators failed to address.
September 27, 2019
On Saturday, September 28, hundreds of people will gather on the shores of Gichi-gami—Lake Superior— in Duluth for a rally and march to express their ongoing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
September 23, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today marks the end of a public comment period for the Trump administration’s proposed management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The plan, being pushed forward despite ongoing legal challenges to the administration’s efforts to shrink the monument, opens significant portions of the remaining monument to dirty fuel development. More than 8,000 public comments were submitted in opposition to the Trump administration’s plan.
September 20, 2019
HOUSTON, TX - Tropical Depression Imelda deluged southeast Texas on Thursday. The region, including Beaumont, Port Arthur, Houston, and Orange, has been inundated with torrential rain that has caused devastating flooding, shutting down highways and leaving thousands of stranded residents in need of rescue. Many of the same areas which are still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey have been flooded and otherwise impacted once again. An emergency has been declared by the mayor of Beaumont and the Governor of Texas. Despite the fact that Houston schools are shut down today, hundreds of students are marching in the streets as part of the global Youth Climate Strike today. Today also marks the 2 year anniversary of the destruction brought to Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria.
September 19, 2019
FERC announced a new rulemaking today that would dramatically alter how small clean energy resources are compensated under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA)
September 19, 2019
Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club issued an update to a previous press release issued on September 16th, regarding the recent release of oil vapor at the Marathon Refinery in Southwest Detroit.
Sierra Club’s press release stated that a letter had been sent to the United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board raising concerns about the potential release of hydrogen fluoride at the refinery.
September 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Democrats and grassroots efforts succeeded in pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell into supporting bipartisan election security legislation to protect voting systems from hacking. The voting machines used by millions of voters in over a dozen states are still susceptible to hacking following foreign powers interfering in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
September 19, 2019
Western Environmental Law Center, Wilderness Workshop, Western Colorado Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club recently won an important victory in Federal District Court. The lawsuit challenged BLM’s 2015 Resource Management Plan (the plan) for the Colorado River Valley Field Office (CRVFO). The suit contested the plan’s prioritization of oil and gas development over all other uses, as well as BLM’s failure to consider the climate impacts of drilling thousands of new gas wells on our local public lands.
September 19, 2019
Houston, TX -- NextDecade, the company behind the proposed Rio Grande LNG fracked gas export facility at the Port of Brownsville, is reportedly partnering with Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge to build the double Rio Bravo Pipeline to feed the facility.