Press Releases

April 1, 2025

Salt Lake City, UT – Today, in coordination with partners around the country, community members gathered at Rocky Mountain headquarters to protest the utility’s latest move to lock Utah into decades of costly, volatile fossil fuels – driving up energy bills while cleaner, more affordable renewables are overlooked. The demonstration comes after Rocky Mountain Power’s parent company, PacifiCorp’s, release of its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which slashes renewable energy investments and delays the transition to lower-cost clean power.

April 1, 2025

DES MOINES, Iowa; LAS VEGAS; RENO, Nev.; SALT LAKE CITY — Today, a coalition of concerned organizations and citizens around the country gathered to protest Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE) and its electric utility subsidiaries for harming the health and pocketbooks of customers. In addition to running the dirtiest set of coal plants in the country that harm the heal

April 1, 2025

COLUMBIA, S.C. (April 1, 2025) – Yesterday, Dominion Energy released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Update for South Carolina, which includes keeping two coal plants operating years past their planned retirement dates.

April 1, 2025

Yesterday, PacifiCorp, the parent company of Rocky Mountain Power which serves Wyoming, released its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), significantly scaling back and slow-walking investments in renewable energy, instead prioritizing expensive and volatile fossil fuels. The IRP, meant to guide the utility’s energy procurement strategy for the coming decades, represents a stark step backwards from cost-effective clean energy solutions that could lower customer bills and boost local economies.

March 31, 2025

HARTFORD, Conn. – Today, a coalition of environmental organizations, alongside community advocates for climate and energy justice, hosted a press conference at the Legislative Office Building. After, 70 people marched to the Capitol Area System where attendees participated in a die-in, laying on the ground to represent the life-threatening consequences of gas expansion. 

March 31, 2025

Denver, CO - Last Friday the District of Colorado dismissed a lawsuit from Colorado corporate landlord groups aimed at overturning performance standards for large buildings, ruling the plaintiffs were unable to meet the threshold requirement to pro

March 31, 2025

Washington, D.C - The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has taken aim at its next government agency to shutter—the Office of Mine Safety and Health Administration.

March 31, 2025

RALEIGH, N.C. – The Sierra Club released a report today on the impacts of Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP) on communities in North Carolina, including low-income and communities of color.

March 28, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the White House announced an executive order demanding the Secretary of the Interior review and reinstate public monuments, statues, and memorials that were previously removed or updated to reflect a more inclusive and accurate accounting of history. The order also bans any monuments and other markers that might criticize colonial figures.

March 28, 2025

— Yesterday, the D.C. District Court found unlawful a 73-million acre offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico held by the Interior Department in March 2023.