Bloomberg Philanthropies y el Sierra Club anunciaron que la campaña Más Allá del Carbón ha logrado retirar el 60% de las plantas térmicas de carbón de Estados Unidos —318 de las 530 hasta hoy. Este hito duplica la meta original, establecida en 2011, la cual se comprometió a retirar el 30%, la mitad, del total para este año 2020 y a acelerar la transición hacia una economía de energía limpia.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As reported by POLITICO, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has postponed an internal speaker series on environmental injustices faced by people of color and low-income communities after Donald Trump issued a governmentwide memo on September 4th banning diversity and anti-discrimination training within federal agencies.
The Sierra Club and a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s latest assault on critical safeguards against oil and gas pollution.
Harrisburgh, P.A. - The Environmental Quality Board (EQB) approved the proposed draft of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) rule today, the nation’s first regional program that sets a declining limit on carbon dioxide pollution, and generates funding for clean energy by requiring owners of fossil fuel power plants to pay for their climate changing pollution.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 -- NEW YORK, NY -- Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Sierra Club today announced that the U.S. Beyond Coal campaign has successfully retired 60% of domestic coal-fired power plants – 318 out of 530 plants, to date. This milestone doubles the original goal, set in 2011, which pledged to retire 30 percent of the nation’s coal fleet by 2020 and accelerate the United States’ transition to a clean energy economy.
OAKLAND -- Donald Trump today visited California for a briefing on wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest. During his remarks, Trump once again promoted his denial of climate science.
Richmond, VA -- Today, in hearings before the State Corporation Committee (SCC),
the Sierra Club testified against Appalachian Power’s attempt to almost double the basic service charge and force consumers to needlessly subsidize continued operations for archaic coal plants. The proposed increase includes a ‘coal amortization rider’ which would make consumers needlessly stockpile their money for the company in order to further reliance on fossil fuels.
Despite bipartisan demands for Donald Trump and Senate Republicans to pass a relief package providing immediate relief for families suffering -- including the hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work according to a new analysis released today by BW Research Partnership -- action remains stalled.
Water and climate advocacy organizations submitted comments and signatures from exactly 43,000 people demanding FERC deny the fracked gas MVP more time to construct the pipeline
St. Paul, MN -- Today, Republicans in the Minnesota Senate voted to fire Department of Commerce Commissioner Steve Kelley in retaliation for doing his job and carrying out the mission of the Department of Commerce, which is charged with protecting the public interest and strengthening Minnesota’s economic future.