September 2, 2020
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors took historic steps to protect vulnerable frontline communities by establishing buffer zones separating oil wells from homes and schools.
Press Releases
September 2, 2020
Duke Energy has filed its long-term energy plans with state regulators, laying out options that could bring an end to most coal burning by 2030, but that still envision decades of dependence on dangerous fracked gas.
September 2, 2020
The Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of Jon Ossoff in the race for U.S. Senate.
September 1, 2020
Boston, MA -- Tonight, Senator Ed Markey won the Massachusetts Democratic senate primary. The Sierra Club endorsed the Senator last September, citing his decades of leadership in Congress fighting to tackle the climate crisis, advance clean energy, and protect public lands, including co-authoring both the American Clean Energy Security Act and the Green New Deal joint resolution.
August 31, 2020
Washington, DC— Today, the Trump administration proposed gutting protections for national forest lands— granting easier access to the fossil fuel industry for drilling and fracking on the landscapes.
August 31, 2020
Today, former coal lobbyist and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized another rollback of key clean water protections, which had been put in place to prevent the vast majority of coal plants across the United States from dumping their toxic, industrial sludge into the drinking water sources of millions of Americans.
August 31, 2020
Radnor Township, PA -- On Tuesday evening, the Radnor Township School Board unanimously passed a resolution establishing a goal seeking to establish 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2030, and to electrify all other energy needs - heating, cooking, cooling, and transportation - by 2040.
August 31, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to skirt the law and give a pass to allow automakers to pollute more. Today’s ruling states that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) must apply the higher penalties issued under the Obama administration when automakers fail to meet the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
August 28, 2020
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas declined to require Kinder Morgan to stop construction of the Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline across 129 waterways, allowing for the destruction of hundreds of acres of habitat for endangered species.
28 de agosto de 2020
"Donald Trump es el peor presidente de la historia para la limpieza del aire y el agua, la salud pública y el clima. Es una vergüenza nacional su descarada celebración en un parque nacional como si fuera una fiesta mientras las familias del país confrontan las realidades de la crisis climática que él mismo ha exacerbado. Tenemos que reemplazarlo con Joe Biden”.