January 8, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the recipients of the Clean School Bus Program grants. EPA will grant $965 million for 280 school districts to purchase clean school buses.
Press Releases
January 3, 2024
NANTUCKET, MA. – After years of tireless work from grassroots groups, labor unions, and government officials, Vineyard Wind, the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, is officially online. Sierra Club Massachusetts and its Cape Cod group submitted hundreds of pieces of testimony and comment to state legislators, local municipalities, and the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management over the last 15 years to encourage the development of a responsible offshore wind industry in America. Sierra Club applauds the monumental achievement from Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and is excited for our new energy future.
January 2, 2024
Boise, ID - The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) quietly closed out 2023 by rebuffing experts and voting to approve Idaho Power's controversial new rooftop solar compensation rates after years of public, expert and environmental community pushback. The commission also approved a lopsided electric rate increase that will disproportionately impact low-income customers.
January 2, 2024
Recently, DC announced its formal adoption of the Advanced Clean Cars (ACC) II Rule, which requires auto manufacturers to ensure that every new light-duty car sold in the District is a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) by 2035.
December 27, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, one of the bedrock environmental laws of the United States, coming into force.
Overwhelming majorities in both the United States House of Representatives and Senate passed the Act. Since it was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, the Endangered Species Act has become one of the most significant environmental laws in U.S. history. It has saved from extinction 99 percent of all the species listed for protection.
December 22, 2023
ALBANY, NY -- Today, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Birds and Bees Protection Act into law. The new law will eliminate 80-90 percent of the toxic class of pesticides called neonicotinoids, or neonics for short, from entering New York’s environment. The law will prohibit the use of unneeded neonic coatings on corn, soybean, and wheat seeds and non-agricultural lawn and garden uses.
December 22, 2023
The Wu administration is allocating $3.5 million to support building decarbonization in environmental justice communities
December 22, 2023
Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Treasury released draft guidance for the Inflation Reduction Act’s 45V tax credits for hydrogen that will encourage production of the cleanest versions of the fuel, resisting pressure from the fossil fuel industry to propose weaker standards.
December 20, 2023
The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed notice today of their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to ensure that areas in 11 states and two U.S. territories have effective plans for cleaning up sulfur dioxide air pollution.
December 20, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior will hold an offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, less than one month since a significant oil spill in the Gulf. It is the second lease sale the Biden Administration has held in 2023, and it is the last scheduled sale until 2025, under the recently finalized five-year plan for offshore drilling.