Press Releases

January 19, 2022

Today, Citigroup announced new 2030 interim targets to reach its commitment to net-zero financed emissions by 2050. The plan includes a commitment to reduce absolute financed emissions from the energy sector by 29% and financed emissions intensity from the power sector by 63%.

January 18, 2022

Today, the House Natural Resources Committee is taking up the Recovering America's Wildlife Act. This bill would invest nearly $1.4 billion for states, territories, and tribes to amplify their work in recovering, conserving, and protecting at-risk wildlife and habitat.

January 18, 2022

Oklahoma City, OK - Organizations representing concerned Oklahomans are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of the state’s coal ash program. The groups argue that the EPA unlawfully failed to provide adequate public participation and allowed Oklahoma to issue dangerous “permits for life” to coal ash facilities. “Permits for life” deprive the public and regulators of predictable reviews of legal requirements and onsite conditions at coal ash facilities, like what’s required for air emissions and water discharge permits.

January 18, 2022

Sweeping Attack on EPA Authority is Based on a Policy That Was Never Enforced and Will Never Go Into Effect

January 18, 2022

Today, the Glenfarne Group's proposed Texas LNG project at the Port of Brownsville entered into a 20-year deal to buy 720 million cubic feet of fracked gas per day from the existing Enbridge's Valley Crossing Pipeline

January 18, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Senate began debate on the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act for the first time, now a combined bill named the Freedom To Vote: John R Lewis Act. Leader Schumer has signaled that he will hold a vote on changing the filibuster if Republicans obstruct consideration of the House package, and Senators will publicly cast their vote to either uphold the racist filibuster or protect the fundamental freedom to vote for every American.

January 17, 2022

New York, NY – Tonight, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink released his annual letter to CEOs.

In response, Ben Cushing, Fossil-Free Finance Campaign Manager with the Sierra Club, released the following statement:

January 13, 2022

Today, President Biden announced the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to be vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, the Fed’s top regulator of Wall Street banks.

January 13, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Days after President Biden endorsed Senate rules reform to protect our right to vote, leading environmental organizations are reiterating the call for the Senate to ensure final passage of the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act by reforming the filibuster to overcome Republican obstruction.

January 13, 2022

Powder River Basin Resource Council, National Parks Conservation Association, and Sierra Club welcomed a decision from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposing to deny a change to a long-standing pollution control plan for the Jim Bridger coal plant in Wyoming.