Owensboro, KY - Sierra Club today applauded the Owensboro Municipal Utilities Commission for voting to retire the second unit of its Elmer Smith coal-burning power plant. This announced closure will retire the Elmer Smith plant in its entirety prior to 2023, as a 2019 retirement date for Unit 1 was announced in 2015.
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March 16, 2017
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Sierra Club Response To Trump’s Rigged Budget Proposal
Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice filed a motion announcing its intention to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s safeguards for hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The DOJ has asked the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to hold the Obama administration's appeal defending the rule in abeyance while they rescind the rule.
*** Read the full filing online here ***
LAS VEGAS, NV: NV Energy’s Reid Gardner coal plant has finally stopped burning coal after 50 years of powering -- and polluting -- southern Nevada. The closure of the Reid Gardner coal plant is a remarkable triumph for all Nevadans, but especially for the Moapa Band of Paiutes who mounted an impressive campaign to replace the coal plant that soiled their air and water with clean, sustainable solar power.
DETROIT, MI - Donald Trump announced today that he will meet with the Mayor of Flint, Michigan after pledging to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by historic levels.
In response, Gail Philbin, Director of the Michigan Chapter of Sierra Club, released the following statement:
Los Angeles, CA -- Today, the Sierra Club, the California League of Conservation Voters and the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund announced their joint endorsement of Jimmy Gomez in the special election for California’s 34th congressional district, scheduled for April 4th.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rewrite the midterm review determination on vehicle emissions made earlier this year by the Agency.
SAN FRANCISCO (March 13, 2017) – On May 18, the Sierra Club – the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization – will celebrate its 125th Anniversary at the Trail Blazers Ball in San Francisco with Honorees Shailene Woodley and Michael R. Bloomberg. The event will celebrate the Sierra Club’s historic work at the federal, state, and local levels to protect millions of acres of our wild America and accelerate a just and equitable transition to a 100% clean energy economy.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz and Sen. Mike Lee on Monday announced that they would use an extreme and obscure legislative maneuver called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overrule common sense clean air protections for Utah national parks. Chaffetz began by introducing legislation in the House to repeal the Regional Haze Rule for Utah.