August 19, 2020
The Sierra Club applauds the Minnesota Department of Commerce and Governor Tim Walz for their decision to continue their appeal of the Certificate of Need for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
Press Releases
August 18, 2020
Opponents of Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 pipeline filed a lawsuit with the Court of Appeals today challenging the Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC) approval of permits for the project.
August 18, 2020
MONTGOMERY, AL - Late Friday, the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) greenlighted Alabama Power’s billion-dollar fossil fuel expansion and booted its solar investments to a different docket. This presents a massive economic risk for Alabama Power’s customers as the PSC approved the utility’s plans to pass all the costs of building and maintaining the new gas plants onto its customers.
17 de agosto de 2020
Durante el fin de semana, la administración Trump retiró la nominación de William Perry Pendley para servir como director de la Oficina de Gestión de Terrenos (BLM).
17 de agosto de 2020
Se espera hoy que el Departamento del Interior dé un paso más para celebrar una subasta de arrendamientos en la delicada planicie costera del Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre del Artico.
August 16, 2020
Today, the Department of the Interior is expected to take the next step toward holding a lease sale in the delicate coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Bureau of Land Management’s “record of decision” will reportedly make the entire coastal plain available for leasing.
August 15, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Early this morning, the Trump Administration quietly withdrew the nomination of William Perry Pendley to serve as director of the Bureau of Land Management. Pendley had served more than a year as the BLM acting director, a role that was supposed to be temporary.
August 14, 2020
Innovative Policy in L.A. County Could Ignite Just Transition While Protecting Residents From a Legacy of Toxic Emissions
August 13, 2020
Kinder Morgan CEO Steve Kean announced yesterday that the company plans to reroute the controversial Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline to go around the Blanco River, in response to public outrage over a spill during pipeline construction, the impacts of which Kinder Morgan has repeatedly downplayed, that left Blanco County residents without clean drinking water.
August 13, 2020
Today, the Trump administration is expected to finalize two rules that eliminate common sense Clean Air Act safeguards against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.