Washington, DC – After attempts by the Administration to hide it from the American public for days, the Washington Post has reported that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is urging Donald Trump to further undermine bedrock environmental law and stri
Washington, DC – Tonight, House Republicans adopted a FY2025 Budget Resolution that makes dangerous cuts to essential services and paves the way for huge handouts to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
Denver, CO - Today the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) voted to approve new rules implementing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oil and gas methane reduction requirements. The Regulation 7 rulemaking requires operators to eliminate methane-emitting pneumatic devices at oil and gas sites throughout the state and prioritizes reductions in areas that are violating ozone pollution standards. Colorado is the first state to incorporate these provisions into its state methane plan—due to the EPA by March 2026.
Washington, DC – Early this morning, Senate Republicans adopted a FY2025 Budget Resolution that makes dangerous cuts to essential services and paves the way for huge handouts to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a high-ranking member of the Trump administration confirmed it will place conditions on California wildfire aid.
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.