Press Releases

January 23, 2026

OLYMPIA, Wash. — On January 22, 2026, the Washington State Supreme Court heard oral arguments centering on the legality of I-2066, centering on how the initiative’s title misled voters by its ballot title and instead silently amended existing climate and clean air laws and programs across multiple state agencies, utilities, and local governments. 

January 23, 2026

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — With the go-ahead from the three governor-appointed PSC commissioners, SWEPCO will increase bills by 23% at current fuel costs, in part to help prop up the old, dirty, and expensive Flint Creek coal plant.

January 23, 2026

ANCHORAGE, AK —Ten groups filed an amended and supplemental complaint today  challenging the Trump administration’s 2025 decisions to reinstate unlawful permits for the  proposed Ambler road. These groups, represented by Trustees for Alaska, have spent years in  court fighting the proposed Ambler road because of the profound threat this 200-mile-plus  industrial road would pose to the people, water, and wildlife of Northwest Alaska. 

January 23, 2026

ATLANTA - Today, environmental groups pushed back on Georgia Power’s defense of its plan to build the most expensive gas plants in the nation.

January 23, 2026

PHILADELPHIA – This week, the National Park Service removed an exhibit from Independence National Historical Park examining the legacy of slavery at the site.

January 23, 2026

Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club is highlighting the transparency generated by the organization’s Environmental Law Program in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office.

January 22, 2026

Washington, D.C. - Today, seven environmental and consumer advocacy groups filed rehearing requests after Donald Trump’s Department of Energy unlawfully invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act and forced two coal power plants in Indiana to stay online after their planned retirements.

January 8, 2026

BROOKFIELD, Conn. – Tonight, local residents and community activists attended an informational public hearing on the tentatively-approved Iroquois gas pipeline “Enhancement by Compression” project. Hearing attendees spoke out resoundingly against the project and the decision by Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to deny the Town of Brookfield’s and other groups’ request for an adjudicatory hearing. 

January 20, 2026

BOSTON– Environmental groups weighed in today in support of a coalition of renewable energy industry groups challenging a series of actions taken by the Trump Administration to prevent federal permitting for wind and solar energy projects.

January 22, 2026

Proposal from Rep. Gosar, HR 4255, would push critically endangered animal closer to extinction