November 30, 2018
Governor Rick Scott and the rest of the Florida Power Plant Siting Board voted unanimously to approve the expansion of fracked gas burning at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) Dania Beach Plant
Press Releases
November 30, 2018
Today the Trump administration will authorize companies to injure, harass, disrupt or even kill marine mammals in the course of surveying the Atlantic Ocean seafloor to detect oil and gas reserves.
November 29, 2018
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA -- Today, the Trump Administration will sign its NAFTA 2.0 trade agreement with Canada and Mexico during the annual G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires. The deal includes weak environmental terms that have enabled outsourcing of pollution and jobs, fail to even mention climate change, roll back environmental standards from past trade deals, and include special handouts to oil and gas corporations.
November 29, 2018
A new report written by Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice, Prairie Rivers Network and Sierra Club, revealed widespread pollution of the groundwater surrounding 90 percent of reporting Illinois coal ash dumpsites.
November 28, 2018
Pittsburgh, PA -- The Pennsylvania Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP) hosted a public hearing yesterday on its drafted update to the water pollution permit for the Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant. The plant owned by FirstEnergy, is a 2,700 megawatt plant located on the Ohio River in Beaver County. It is currently the largest coal plant in the state, and one of the largest remaining plants in the country.
November 28, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in an interview with Washington Post Reporter Juliet Eilperin, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, after admitting to not reading the entire National Climate Assessment even though his own agency played a key role in drafting it. He dismissed the assessment, wrongly implying the data is political, while taking credit for pollution reductions resulting from Obama administration policies. Wheeler’s EPA has rolled back carbon pollution protections, including repealing the Clean Power Plan and a gutting methane safeguards. Since he became Acting Administrator, Wheeler has taken action that harms public health on average of every three days.
November 28, 2018
Oakland, CA -- The Sierra Club welcomes more than 3.5 million members, volunteers and supporters across 63 chapters and even more groups, whose collective influence advances climate change action, protects the environment, and advocates for healthy communities and numerous issue campaigns across the country.
November 27, 2018
Yesterday in an interview with the Washington Post, Donald Trump doubled down on his climate denial, dismissing the National Climate Assessment recently released by his own government and denying man-made climate change.
November 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report, detailing how the world’s countries are not doing enough to curb carbon emissions. According to the report, global emissions continued to rise in 2017, and it is unlikely that they will peak by 2020, despite the critical need to reduce emissions in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius.
November 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Hill reported that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke dismissed the recently released multi-agency National Climate Assessment that details the catastrophic impacts of climate change on our economy, health, and way of life. Zinke accused the assessment’s authors of using only worst-case scenarios, despite confirmation from one of the authors of the assessment that “it considers ALL scenarios, from those where we go carbon negative before end of century to those where carbon emissions continue to rise.”