Westmoreland Coal Company announced it will enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, following a recent trend in coal company bankruptcies caused by American energy consumers' increasing preference for cleaner, cheaper competitors, like solar and wind energy.
BOSTON -- Two leading Massachusetts climate organizations, the Massachusetts Sierra Club and 350 Mass Action, have endorsed former Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance, Jay Gonzalez in his race to unseat Governor Charlie Baker.
This endorsement comes in advance of an Environmental Weekend of Action, scheduled for October 13-14. Environmental activists and members of the endorsing organizations will come together in key districts across the state to get out the vote for Jay Gonzalez and other environmentally-focused candidates.
Today, on Indigenous People’s Day, Honor The Earth, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, 350 Seattle, Friends of the Earth France, and others launched a campaign calling on JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and French bank Crédit Agricole to end their participation in credit lines of nearly $4 billion dollars associated with Indigenous rights violations with major tar sands pipeline companies Enbridge and TransCanada.
Nation’s Largest Grassroots Environmental Organization Praises Mucarsel-Powell’s Plan to Protect Florida’s Clean Air and Water
MIAMI, FLORIDA -- The Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in Florida’s 26th District.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major report on the effects climate change is and will have on the world if immediate action is not taken. The report - based on three years of scientific research - projects that catastrophic effects of the climate crisis such as food shortages and droughts could occur by 2040, within the lifetime of much of the world’s population.
Washington, DC -- Today, all but one Senate Republican -- along with one Senate Democrat -- voted to confirm Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. Multiple women have shared their stories of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, and he has been caught lying numerous times while under oath.
For weeks now, millions of Americans have called or visited their senators’ offices, and thousands more have taken to the streets, demanding Brett Kavanaugh be rejected.
Today, at the request of a coalition of clean water advocates including the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have in order to build through waterways in Virginia.
As Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spoke at an event at the Charlestown Navy Yard this morning, a crowd of protesters was there to call on him to protect our public lands from dirty fossil fuel development.
Washington, DC -- Today, Senate Republicans voted to move Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, forward. Multiple women have shared their stories of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, and he has been caught lying numerous times while under oath. For more than 200 years, the Senate have honored a 60 vote margin for Supreme Court nominees to be moved forward. Kavanaugh only received 51.
Today the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB) modified the widely criticized proposal by Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration to bail out Dynegy-Vistra coal power plants in Illinois. Dynegy and Vistra Energy recently merged in a deal worth $20 billion, yet still claimed financial hardship and urged state officials to ease clean-air rules. The proposed change would have led to worse air quality and detrimental health impacts in communities already among the hardest hit by pollution.