PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Today, leaders from Ready for 100, The Climate Mobilization -- Philadelphia, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania, and Clean Air Council spoke to the city’s environmental committee in the context of new bills related to energy efficiency, a ban on heavy oils, and environmental justice, calling for city-wide participation in implementation of its commitment to 100% clean energy.
Ben & Jerry’s and Sierra Club are partnering to advance a shared goal of powering the US with 100% clean and renewable energy.
Donald Trump seemingly broke a long-held, bipartisan norm last night by seeking to fill only one of two open seats on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Rather than following established custom and pairing a Republican with a Democrat, Trump nominated only Republican James Danly, despite there being a qualified Democrat put forward. This decision harms the deliberative process in the Senate and FERC’s mission of being a fair, nonpolitical arbiter of America’s energy markets.
NORTHEAST & MID-ATLANTIC – Today, the 12 states and D.C. participating in the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) released a draft regional policy proposal to reduce greenhouse gas pollution from transportation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today climate science denier William Perry Pendley’s time as Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management expires.
This morning, the Sierra Club released a report that shows a Florida electric utility portfolio of additional renewable energy, storage, and demand-side management (DSM) could consistently meet, and beat, the performance characteristics of new proposed big methane gas fired power plants - and at a lower cost to consumers.
St. Louis, MO - Today, a federal judge in St. Louis ordered Ameren to comply with the Clean Air Act by installing pollution controls at its Rush Island and Labadie coal-fired power plants. Following a trial on remedies earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel entered a 157-page Memorandum Opinion today which summarized the Court’s rulings. Sierra Club intervened in this case in 2017.
Today the Sierra Club filed an objection to the proposed settlement in WEC Energy Group’s ongoing rate cases.
Duluth, MN -- Nearly 1,000 people gathered today on the shores of Gichi-gami—Lake Superior— for a rally and march to express their ongoing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline. The crowd expressed appreciation to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for yesterday's denial of a key water crossing permit for the pipeline, and urged the Walz administration to continue to do everything in their power to ensure that this pipeline is never built.
St. Paul, MN -- Today, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (PCA) dealt yet another setback to Enbridge’s controversial proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline when it denied a key water crossing permit for the pipeline. This could set the timeline for the proposed pipeline back by six months or longer.