Washington, DC -- Today, the World Bank announced that it will stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction starting in 2019.
The announcement comes as financial institutions have come under increased scrutiny over their funding of dirty fossil fuels that are driving the climate crisis.
LYONS, Nebraska -- Today, the Sierra Club released a new report featuring the environmental organization’s analysis of the Nebraska Public Power District’s recently released strategic plan for achieving low cost electric service to its customers.
PORTLAND-- PacifiCorp, the largest utility in the western United States, will evaluate the true cost of its coal investments at the behest of the Oregon Public Utilities Commission (OPUC). The request for a coal analysis comes after Pacific Power’s customers, a PacifiCorp company, demanded to know if the cost of its coal fleet is in their best interest. When finished in June 2018, the report will include an evaluation of all of PacifiCorp’s coal assets, which serves customers in parts of Utah, Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and California.
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a tolling order for the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Although the Natural Gas Act requires that FERC act on rehearing requests within 30 days so that parties challenging a pipeline can quickly go to court, FERC uses tolling orders to extend the deadline for it to decide the rehearing request.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied DTE Energy Company’s petition to review an ongoing enforcement action regarding excessive air pollution from DTE’s Monroe coal-fired power plant. The U.S. EPA, and Sierra Club represented by Earthjustice, have pursued this action since 2010, when DTE undertook a $65 million overhaul of Unit 2 of the aging Monroe coal plant without first installing modern pollution controls to lessen the amount of toxic pollution increases, as required by the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review (NSR) program.
Durham, NC - An ambitious new audio series released today by Sierra Club covers the real consequences of fossil fuels and climate change in the American South -- with a hopeful vision for the region’s future.
Reporting by CNN today reveals that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is pushing for a road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The road would be the first constructed through a Wilderness area, and marks the latest in a long string of decisions by the Interior Department to roll back protections for wild places.
A coalition of environmental groups filed a petition for review with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to overturn Virginia’s unlawful approval of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Today’s action comes just a day after the Virginia State Water Control Board issued a certificate under the Clean Water Act that MVP needed to obtain to begin construction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, during EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s congressional hearing, Pruitt announced the EPA will be partnering with Toyota on an operational review. Toyota’s vehicles are regulated by the EPA under vehicle emission standards (clean car standards). Toyota is currently urging the EPA to weaken these standards. In March of 2003, the EPA reached a settlement with Toyota for failing to disclosure information about a faulty part that increased ozone pollution in 2.2 million vehicles sold in the U.S.
In yet another setback for Enbridge, the company behind the proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled today that the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the pipeline is inadequate. The Department of Commerce must answer narrow questions about Karyst Typography and clarify shortcomings in the analysis.