September 15, 2022
Washington, DC – The Department of the Interior has announced that it will reinstate leases for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Press Releases
September 16, 2022
NEW YORK – NRG-owned Astoria Gas Turbine Power and Beacon Wind filed a joint petition with the New York State Public Service Commission yesterday seeking approval of a sale transferring ownership of the land under the existing gas-powered peaker plant to Beacon Wind for electrical interconnection to their 1,230 MW wind project.
September 15, 2022
TOLEDO, OH -- Today, the Biden administration announced a significant step forward i
15 de septiembre de 2022
El Sierra club se unió a más de 150 grupos progresistas en el lanzamiento de la Campaña Soluciones para la Contaminación (#SolutionsForPollution).
September 15, 2022
A global coalition of advocacy nonprofits including ShareAction, BankTrack, Reclaim Finance, and the Sierra Club have written to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) and the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) steering committee, urging NZBA members to restrict their financing of fossil fuel projects, including coal, in order to align with the recently strengthened Race to Zero criteria. Read the letter here.
September 15, 2022
Hammond, Ind. – BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million for penalties and environmental projects to resolve a 2019 lawsuit that charged the company’s more than century-old Whiting Refinery on the shore of Lake Michigan just south of Chicago with repeatedly viola
September 14, 2022
LOS ANGELES-- A federal judge has vacated a U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision that would have allowed Cadiz Inc.
September 13, 2022
Today, several environmental and community organizations formally petitioned EPA to eliminate nearly 100 exemptions in the Clean Air Act that allow industrial polluters around the country to dump deadly air pollution with impunity into nearby communities during start ups, shutdowns, and malfunctions (SSM).
May 8, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, several environmental and community organizations formally petitioned EPA to eliminate nearly 100 exemptions
September 12, 2022
Washington, DC – This afternoon, Senate Republicans led by West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito released legislation that would overhaul federal permitting requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other federal environmental protection laws including the Clean Water Act and Endan