In an update made public Monday, Hyundai Steel submitted changes to its air permit application that reveal the company plans to switch nine dirty industrial heaters at its proposed steel plant from gas-fired to electric. The company also said they would install additional pollution controls that will significantly reduce emissions from its original plans, which failed to consider these efficient options at all.
Washington, D.C. - According to reporting, today Donald Trump is set to announce plans to give away $700 million in taxpayer grants for aging, expensive, toxic coal plants—including grants to build two new coal plants—marking the latest in a string of costly bailouts for a collapsing industry. The U.S.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – On Tuesday, June 2, Sierra Club West Virginia – in collaboration with local artist CJ Sews and master quilter Tracy Dingess – debuted the finished Quilting for Community quilt designed, cut, and sewn by community members. The debut party was held at the Co-Op in Morgantown, the site of the project’s initial launch in January. Over 35 people joined in the celebration.
HARTFORD, Ct. — Today, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Department of the Interior's $1 billion buyout of TotalEnergies' offshore wind lease, a move that led the company to abandon its U.S.
NORTHEAST — Today, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Department of the Interior's $1 billion buyout of TotalEnergies' offshore wind leases, a move that led the company to abandon its U.S. offshore wind projects in exchange for doubling down on fossil fuel investments, including LNG exports in the Gulf.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, President Trump signed an executive order revoking decades-old protections that have guided the management of off-highway vehicles on federal public lands since the 1970s. The order directs federal agencies to rescind or revise regulations ensuring motorized vehicle access is balanced with protecting natural, cultural, and historic recreational resources.
Today, the Department of Energy issued guidance that will create confusion, make it significantly harder for households to access funds to upgrade polluting or inefficient appliances, and disrupt programs already approved and underway in multiple states.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Sierra Club submitted Direct Testimony on Friday in the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) case for Mon Power’s proposed $2.48 Billion, 1,200 MW combined cycle gas plant. The plant, according to the utility, would be built adjacent to the existing Fort Martin coal plant without first retiring the facility's aging, inefficient coal units.
MADISON, Wis. – At a recent Gubernatorial Forum focused on Wisconsin’s energy and electric sector, candidates shared strong words about Enbridge’s controversial Line 5 pipeline reroute project, which has been partially stayed by a Circuit Court Judge.
BROOKFIELD, Ct. -- On May 30 and 31, fourteen Sierra Club Connecticut and Sunrise New Haven members and supporters completed the Ride to End Fossil Fuels, a 100 mile bike ride across the state in protest of methane gas expansion projects.