Press Releases

May 5, 2025

Columbia, S.C. - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new interactive tool that shows the environmental toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) safeguards on coal pollution in South Carolina. 

May 5, 2025

Raleigh, N.C. - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new interactive tool that shows the environmental toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) safeguards on coal pollution in North Carolina.

May 5, 2025

Indianapolis, Ind - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new interactive tool that shows the environmental toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) safeguards on coal pollution in Indiana. 

May 5, 2025

ORLANDO, Fla. - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new tool that shows the public health and environmental toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s safeguards against coal pollution in Florida. 

May 5, 2025

Chattanooga, TN - Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Don Moul announced that the country’s largest federal utility is considering delaying retirement of four coal plants in its fleet. 

May 5, 2025

Washington, D.C. - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new tool that shows the pollution toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s safeguards on coal pollution. 

May 3, 2025

OMAHA, NEBRASKA -- Today, Berkshire Hathaway’s Chairman and CEO, Warren Buffett, announced he plans to retire at the end of 2025. Buffett said he will recommend to the board that Greg Abel, currently the Vice Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, will take responsibility as the new CEO and Chairman at the end of the year. 

In response, Sierra Club Staff Attorney, Rose Monahan, released the following statement:

May 2, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, the White House released Donald Trump’s FY2026 budget outline, which would make unprecedented cuts to essential services and drastically underfund critical programs and departments across government that the American people rely on. This comes as Congressional Republicans are advancing a plan to provide tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters.

May 2, 2025

NEW YORK -- The Trump administration filed lawsuits against New York and three other states this week to try to stop them from holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in damaging the climate and polluting communities.

May 2, 2025

MONTPELIER, VT. -- The Trump administration filed lawsuits against Vermont and three other states this week to try to stop them from holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in damaging the climate and polluting communities.