July 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Days after its Congressional allies sought to privatize vast swaths of public lands across the country, the Trump administration is launching a new commission charged with making those landscapes “beautiful.”
Press Releases
July 9, 2025
Oakland, CA – The Sierra Club has filed another lawsuit against the Trump Administration, this time seeking to hold the Office of Management and Budget accountable for its failure to respond to three Freedom of Information Act requests, which seek OMB’s records and communications related to freezing Congressionally appropriated funding, as well as communications between key OMB and the Department of Government Effi
July 8, 2025
BOISE, IDAHO -- Today the Boise City Council voted unanimously to approve an amendment to the City’s noise ordinance as part of a settlement with the Sierra Club, represented by Wrest Collective, resolving a lawsuit over an outdated city statute that violated the First Ame
July 8, 2025
TEXAS - This weekend, flash flooding ripped across the state. Rapidly rising floodwaters claimed dozens of lives, and entire communities were swept away, including families, children, and loved ones. As of this moment, the death toll continues to rise.
In response, Dave Cortez, Director of the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter, issued the following statement:
July 7, 2025
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a methodology to analyze reserve power margins across the country that systematically undercounts the contributions of clean energy to meet the nation’s energy needs and protect system reliability. DOE plans to use this methodology to deem certain generators, likely coal and natural gas, as critical to system reliability, consistent with its recent actions.
July 7, 2025
Kansas City, Ks – Today, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Evergy, approved a non-unanimous settlement allowing the electric company to build two gas plants totaling an estimated $1.6 billion. Half of the new gas plant costs will be charged to the utility’s Kansas customers.
July 7, 2025
Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ended its comment period following an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on safety of methane gas exports, known as LNG. The current safeguards are meant to protect workers and communities from dangerous and volatile LNG infrastructure, but those standards have not kept pace with the growth of the industry.
July 3, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees who signed onto a letter dissenting the Trump Administration on administrative leave.
In response, Sierra Club Climate Policy Director Patrick Drupp issued the following statement:
July 3, 2025
ATLANTA - Details on the costs incurred by Georgia Power to serve large load customers, namely data centers, will remain secret until 2028 following a vote Tuesday by the Public Service Commission (PSC). The commission voted unanimously in favor of a settlement agreement, referred to as the Stipulated Agreement, that doesn’t require the utility company to prove that data centers would result in lower rates for all customers or how the costs of bringing these facilities online will be socialized among existing billpayers.
July 3, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Sierra Club Utah Chapter calls for accountability for Senator Mike Lee and Senator John Curtis for going directly against the will of the people by attempting to sell millions of acres of public lands in Utah, and voting to gut clean energy incentives and programs.