Today, Sierra Club released a report card grading MidAmerican Energy’s performance in seven key areas ranging from coal usage, to lack of an emissions reduction goal, to equitable access to clean energy, as well as an overall grade for the utility. The report card follows the release of a more technical economic analysis of MidAmerican’s energy generation released in a report last month, The Coal Truth. The economic report found that MidAmerican’s most uneconomic plants in Iowa, have lost $27.5 million for customers over the last five years and both plants could retire without needing to replace their generated power until 2023. Those retirements would save utility customers $92 million.
St. Louis, MO -- Ameren Missouri, the state’s largest monopoly electric utility, released its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) today that details how it will meet energy demand for the next twenty years and beyond. The IRP is mandated by the Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Ameren. Part of the announcement includes a significant addition of 3,100MW of renewable energy by 2030 and another 2,300MW following 2030. Ameren also makes a commitment for reaching net-zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
DENVER (Sept. 28, 2020) — A new report released today shows how Colorado can reach its ambitious climate goals in a way that cuts dangerous pollution, particularly in communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution. The findings highlight the need for swiftly powering the electric sector with renewable resources, reducing oil and gas production and associated emissions, and electrifying vehicles, buildings, and public transit. The report was released by Evolved Energy, GridLab, NRDC, and Sierra Club with support from PSE Healthy Energy.
Sierra, la revista nacional del Sierra Club, emitió su decimocuarta lista de las universidades más verdes (“Cool Schools”) de Norteamérica. Este año, Sierra recibió candidaturas de 312 instituciones de Estados Unidos y Canadá, un nuevo récord.
This afternoon, Montanans will join a public hearing teleconference hosted by the US Army Corps of Engineers to register their opposition to a proposed water permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. If built, Keystone XL would carry some of the dirtiest oil on the planet through a number of sensitive wetlands and waterways in Montana, including the Missouri River.
Oakland, CA —Today, Sierra Club’s national magazine, Sierra, released its fourteenth annual “Cool Schools” ranking of North America’s greenest colleges and universities. This year, Sierra received submissions from a record-breaking 312 across the United States and Canada.
Donald Trump anunció hoy que ha nominado a Amy Coney Barrett para sustituir a la fallecida jueza Ruth Baden Ginsburg en la Corte Suprema de Justicia. Barrett ha afirmado que los jueces no deben adherirse a los precedentes judiciales, los cuales representan décadas de dura defensa de los derechos civiles y humanos, la salud pública y el medio ambiente.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced he is nominating Amy Coney Barrett to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. Barrett has previously affirmed that judges do not have to adhere to judicial precedents, which represent decades of hard-fought advocacy to protect civil rights, human rights, healthcare, and the environment.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— More than 85 conservation, environmental justice, public health and community groups submitted a letter to the Bureau of Land Management today opposing the Bureau’s first oil and gas lease sale of federa
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite the ongoing and overwhelming COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. Forest Service has not slowed its push to allow a new wave of logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Today the agency announced a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) advancing its proposal to eliminate the Roadless Rule in the Tongass, opening vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest to clearcut logging.