Hartford, CT -- The Connecticut State Senate passed a bill yesterday significantly increasing the state’s offshore wind commitment. Within 14 days of final passage of the bill, the state will put out a bid for up to 2000 megawatts of offshore wind energy--which could power over 800,000 households. The turbines will be located in federal waters 40 to 60 miles from the Connecticut coastline and utilize the State Pier in New London as well as skilled labor from the state in the project. The bill also includes strong labor and environmental protection provisions.
Today, Sierra Club joined U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva, Chair of the House Natural Resources Committee; leaders from Indigenous nations; local elected officials; veterans; and conservation groups in supporting H.R.1373 - Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act. The Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, will make the 20-year mining moratorium established in 2012 permanent. All told, the legislation would protect approximately one million acres of public lands north and south of the Grand Canyon from toxic mining.
On June 3, the State College Borough Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution establishing a goal of 100 percent clean, renewable energy no later than 2050.
Yesterday the Bureau of Land Management released a new environmental review of the largest coal mine expansion in the history of federal coal leasing - Arch Coal’s Black Thunder and Peabody’s North Antelope Rochelle mines in Wyoming.
CHARLESTON, WV -- A coalition of West Virginian advocacy groups including the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Appalachian Voices, and the Sierra Club sent “notice of intent to sue” letters to the parent companies operating 15 coal facilities -- including mines, preparation and processing facilities, and a power plant -- and one chloride plant alleging egregious violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA).
Washington, DC -- The Trump administration’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released a new proposal today seeking to criminalize public protest of fossil fuel pipelines at the federal level.
An administrative law judge is allowing Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to move forward with plans to burn fracked gas and more coal at their Tampa-area Big Bend plant.
In a newly discovered presentation to shareholders, NextDecade, the company behind the controversial proposed Rio Grande LNG export terminal and Rio Bravo pipeline, revealed that the company plans to export dramatically more fracked gas than it disclosed to federal regulators.
Just a day after the Department of Energy referred to fracked gas as “freedom gas” and announced its intent to push a “regulatory system that allows for molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported,” the Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has doubled down on that concept.