Dover, Delaware — Today, Senator Hansen and Representative Heffernan introduced the Delaware Climate Change Solutions Act, which establishes statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets of 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050, from 2005 levels. The bill addresses all sectors of the economy and directs state agencies to incorporate the emissions reductions goals and climate impact scenarios into current and future regulatory decision-making and rulemaking.
The Sierra Club and Great Lakes Environmental Law Center submitted comments challenging the Marshall Energy Center, LLC’s proposal to install two new combined-cycle fossil gas-burning power plants in Marshall, Michigan. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is currently reviewing the proposed permit which the groups urged not be finalized unless and until it has addressed numerous flaws and omissions.
Washington, DC – Today, House Republicans will release a strategy that uses the words climate change. The plans are expected to detail numerous measures that not only reject the scientific consensus on efforts required to address the climate crisis but would exacerbate it.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
Today, six conservation groups submitted a comprehensive recommendation to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD), calling on the state to prioritize the health of the Greater Yellowstone region’s wild ungulate herds and to begin phasing out 22 state-run feedgrounds in northwestern Wyoming, where tens of thousands of elk are artificially fed each winter. The agency is poised to issue a draft feedground management plan early next year.
May 23, 2022: Cancer Free Economy Network (CFE) together with Sierra Club and Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) will convene a two-day virtual symposium today, May 23 and tomorrow, May 24 beginning at 2:00 PM EDT. The symposium builds on testimonies given by impacted community members at CFE’s November 2021 PFAS Incineration Town Hall. The Symposium will offer further community case studies and discussions on how to move from descriptions of the problems with PFAS disposal toward equitable solutions.
During its first meeting since adding five newly-elected members, the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors advanced a forward-thinking agenda of climate justice, environmental protection and social transformation this weekend – and passed a new policy endorsing “comprehensive, voluntary reproductive health care for all.”
Today, the nation’s leading environmental organizations moved to intervene to defend the Biden administration’s rule, finalized in March, that reinstated California’s Clean Air Act waiver, allowing the state to set greenhouse gas standards more protective than federal standards and to adopt zero-emissions standards for light-duty cars.
FALLS CHURCH, VA - Today, at Meridian High School, the Biden-Harris administration will announce the Clean School Bus Program, which offers funding for school districts to move dirty diesel buses off their routes and transition to a cleaner school bus fleet. Currently, 95 percent of the nation’s school buses are diesel. Diesel exhaust is a known carcinogen and can lead to or worsen respiratory illnesses like asthma.
An inspector from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District confirmed that two idled oil wells next to residential neighborhoods in Bakersfield are leaking massive volumes of methane. One well showed emissions at a minimum of 50,000 parts per million (ppm), the maximum level the inspector’s device could record, and another well at the same site is leaking methane at or over 20,000 ppm.
Today, House Democrats voted to pass the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act. Introduced by Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), the bill would crack down on oil and gas companies that are price-gouging consumers.