This month, First Lady Jill Biden made moves toward reviving the Joining Forces initiative, a program to support military service members, veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors, naming Rory Brosius as executive director of the initiative. Biden and then-First Lady Michelle Obama originally launched the program in 2011, focusing on three areas: employment, wellness, and education.
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, President Joe Biden announced immediate action to ensure the federal government is investing U.S. taxpayer dollars to support U.S. jobs. This executive order strengthens existing Buy American rules by closing loopholes to direct investment to domestic manufacturers and service providers.
This week, Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool, which grades utilities based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy -- allowing readers to judge each utility’s climate progress and how it compares to what science demands.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Sierra Club and Radium Girls, are launching #StopForeverChemicals, a new social impact campaign aiming to ban toxic forever chemicals that never break down and are still used in household products today.
Sierra Club and partners including the Ohio Environmental Council, and individual Ohio residents represented by the AltmanNewman law firm, took action to stop the rollback of a critical environmental and public health rule instigated by the former Trump Administration.
SAN ANTONIO—The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool, which grades the top 50 utilities that generate the most electricity from coal and gas across the country based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy - allowing readers to judge each utility’s climate progress and how it compares to what science demands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Sierra Club released a new report that finds that some of the biggest national utilities invested in fossil fuels are failing to take the necessary steps to prevent the climate crisis, that includes Dominion Energy Virginia, Appalachian Power, and First Energy Corporation. Across the nation, we have noticed that utilities state bold climate goals, yet are not actually taking the necessary steps to decarbonize.
Omaha, Nebraska - The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool today, which grades utilities based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy -- allowing readers to judge each utility’s climate progress and how it compares to what science demands. According to the report, which was co-authored by Dr. Leah Stokes of University of California, Santa Barbara, many of the utilities that made “carbon neutral” pledges received a failing grade because they are not retiring their coal and gas plants fast enough to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
Madison, WI -- The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking national report and research tool today, which grades the 50 largest investor-owned utilities across the country based on their current plans for the next decade for retiring coal plants, investing in clean energy, and canceling plans for construction of new gas plants -- allowing readers to judge each utility’s climate progress and how it compares to what science demands. The report, which includes two Wisconsin-based utilities, demonstrates that across the country, the utility sector is lagging behind what’s necessary to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, and is not on track to meet President Biden's goals of 100% clean energy by 2035. The next decade is critically important to our efforts to decarbonize the electric sector and achieve an emissions pathway consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
BISMARCK, ND -- The Sierra Club released a groundbreaking report and research tool today which grades utilities based on their plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy -- allowing readers to judge each utility’s climate progress and how it compares to what science demands.