Press Releases

August 29, 2025

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –The Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) Board voted 6–0 to approve a $1.57 billion fossil fuel facility at the site of the former St. Johns River Power Park. The plant, which won’t come online until 2031 or later, will saddle Jacksonville residents with decades of higher bills and continued reliance on polluting natural gas.

August 28, 2025

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Aug. 28, 2025) - Today, the Forsyth County Commissioners unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution opposing Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP).

August 28, 2025

Washington, DC — As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall approaches, news reports say that the Trump administration has begun to place on leave dozens of FEMA workers who raised concerns of funding cuts and staffing shortages putting lives at risk in the event of another Katrina-level disaster.

August 27, 2025

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule, an extremely popular conservation policy enacted in 2001 to protect  more than 45 million acres of pristine lands in national forests across 36 states and Puerto Rico. The longstanding rule generally protects against new roadbuilding for logging and oil-and-gas drilling in unfragmented, backcountry forestlands that have never been disturbed by major development. 

August 25, 2025

Washington, DC – A review of official Trump administration documents obtained by the Sierra Club shows further opposition to Donald Trump’s attempt to whitewash history on public lands.

August 25, 2025

Washington, D.C. - On Friday, the Trump Administration issued a stop work order to the Revolution Wind project in Rhode Island. The project is already 80 percent completed—with 45 of its 65 wind turbines already installed—and once completed, Revolution Wind would harness enough offshore wind to power 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

August 25, 2025

NEW LONDON, Conn. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued an order to stop work on the almost complete Revolution Wind Project. This is the latest in a series of attacks by the Trump administration on offshore wind, American jobs, and renewable energy sources that keep our air clean and energy bills low. 

August 22, 2025

MIAMI – A federal judge has ordered a stop to expanding operations at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the controversial immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades.

August 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An alliance of more than 100 groups, from environmental organizations to groups supporting outdoor recreation and social justice, are calling on the Secretary of the Interior to reverse a controversial order undermining historical representation on public lands.

August 21, 2025

Letter offers recommendations to Department of Transportation during Surface Transportation Reauthorization comment period