Press Releases

August 14, 2017

Greene County, PA--The Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) rejected a revised underground longwall mining permit issued by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in 2015 that allowed Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company (Consol) to cause extensive damage to a stream called Polen Run, which flows into Ryerson Station Station State Park.

 

August 14, 2017

BILLINGS, Mont. - In a rebuff to the Trump administration’s decision to ignore climate change in federal decision-making, a U.S. District Court judge on Monday invalidated a proposed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountain mine because its climate impacts were not adequately considered.

 

August 14, 2017

Washington, DC -- Earlier today, the D.C. Circuit ruled against a challenge to the Department of Energy's approval of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the Freeport Texas facility.

In response, Sierra Club Staff Attorney Nathan Matthews released the following statement:

August 13, 2017

Rockaway Beach, NY (August 14, 2017) –New York’s business, environmental, labor, and community leaders rallied today in support of Governor Cuomo’s plan to make offshore wind a key component of the state’s strategy to increase renewable energy and spur economic development for New Yorkers.

 

August 13, 2017

Today, Vanguard Group, the world’s second-largest investment company, announced that it will “expand reporting on company engagement priorities such as climate change, board diversity, and corporate governance."

August 13, 2017
August 11, 2017

 

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Sierra Club’s Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement after violence at a white supremacist rally, in Charlottesville, Virginia left at least three people dead and 19 injured.

 

August 11, 2017

 

August 9, 2017

Boston, M.A.—Today the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) issued regulations designed to ensure the Commonwealth achieves the greenhouse gas emission reductions mandated by the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA).  

 

In response Emily Norton, Chapter Director of the Massachusetts Sierra Club and Cathy Buckley, its Chair, issued the following statements:

 

August 9, 2017

Nevada City, Calif.—Today, Nevada City, California became the latest in a growing movement of mountain communities to commit to move to 100 percent clean, renewable energy.

 

Surrounded by city council members, key members of the community and partners, Mayor Duane Strawser announced the city’s near unanimous vote to ensure that the city’s electricity will come entirely from renewable sources by 2030 and that all energy sources would be renewable by 2050.