Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club called on Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin to publicly release the EPA’s recommendation on whether to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate climate pollution under the federal Clean Air Act. Trump’s dangerously misguided Day 1 executive order called for a 30-day review of EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding, which the agency says was submitted to the White House by the deadline of Wednesday of this week.
HARTFORD, Conn. – The Connecticut Department of Administrative Services (DAS) has selected a fossil fuel replacement for the state-owned Capitol Area System in Hartford.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late Thursday night, Senate Republicans voted to back co-presidents Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s hasty firing of national park rangers and wildfire prevention workers, among other land management staff.
Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming
Washington, D.C. - According to the Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s Sustainable Energy in America 2025 Factbook, electricity produced by domestic renewable energy surpassed electricity produced by coal in 2024.
In 2024, renewable energy sources contributed nearly a quarter of all U.S. energy generation, while coal contributed only 15 percent, the lowest amount of generation from the dirty and expensive fuel source in recent history.
NEW YORK CITY - Today, media reports show that Donald Trump is attempting to kill New York City’s recently implemented congestion pricing program, which went into effect on January 5 for the Central Business District of Manhattan.
LANSING, Mich. - A number of federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, are beginning to detail plans to fast-track unnecessary, dirty energy infrastructure projects without sufficient review, including the Line 5 tunnel project in the Straits of Mackinac.
ANCHORAGE, AK — Today, groups concerned about the threats from offshore drilling filed the first environmental legal challenge against the new Trump administration.
NAOMA, W.Va. – Today, Coal River Mountain Watch, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for four valley fills associated with the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
Washington, DC - A number of federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, are beginning to detail plans to fast-track unnecessary, dirty energy infrastructure projects without sufficient review. Agencies were directed to complete reports within 30 days by Donald Trump’s executive order declaring an energy emergency. Projects that could be rushed through without proper review range from LNG export facilities along the Gulf Coast that harm local communities and drive up consumer energy prices to highly controversial pipelines like Line 5, which ships Canadian oil through the Great Lakes and back to Canada threatening the safety of the drinking water supply for 40 million people.