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:
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, the House Committee on Natural Resources unveiled its proposed section for the massive Republican energy, tax, and national security bill.
The sprawling proposal, released in the dead of night, includes dozens of provisions that would benefit the oil and gas industry and other corporations, at the expense of American families.
Cookeville, TN - Sierra Club members and Tennessee community members spoke at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s hearing on the Ridgeline Expansion Project, and urged the department to deny the project’s request for an Aquatic Resource Alteration Permit.
HARTFORD, Conn. –Today, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed House Bill 5004, An Act Concerning the Protection of the Environment and the Development of Renewable Energy Sources and Associated Job Sectors, as a small step toward jumpstarting a cleaner, more resilient future.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Sens. Angus King and Steve Daines introduced the bipartisan America the Beautiful Act, which would reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF) and increase its funding. The LRF, first authorized in the 2020 Great American Outdoors Act, needs renewal to continue its work addressing the public lands maintenance backlog.
In response, Jackie Ostfeld, Sierra Club Outdoors for All campaign director, said:
Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Republicans voted to eliminate an Environmental Protection Agency rule that prevents sources of especially persistent and bioaccumulative air toxics from increasing their emissions. Eliminating that regulation would permit over 1,800 industrial sources to discard the pollution controls currently in place to protect nearby communities from those hazardous air pollutants, which include mercury, dioxins, and hexachlorobenzene–toxics Congress singled out in the Clean Air Act as especially dangerous.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has released an order reforming the state’s Gas System Enhancement Plan (GSEP) (see, for example, Eversource Gas of Massachusetts and National Grid). The order aims to save ratepayers money by reducing gas utility spending on unnecessary pipel