Washington, D.C. - Today, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee advanced their partisan budget reconciliation proposal, which included drastic cuts to clean energy, clean vehicles, and manufacturing project tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund tax breaks for Trump and his billionaire friends.
DES MOINES – Alliant Energy’s Iowa affiliate, Interstate Power and Light (IPL), has agreed to stop discharges of polluted groundwater under an Ottumwa coal ash landfill. The move followed a 60-day notice of intent to sue under the Clean Water Act, issued by the Iowa Environmental Council (IEC), Sierra Club, and Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC), over unauthorized discharges.
Basel Committee On Banking Supervision tables U.S. call to downgrade climate risk task force, but agrees to eliminate mandatory disclosures of climate-related financial risks
BOSTON - Massachusetts will likely see utility rates change under proposed legislation introduced today with the support of Governor Maura Healey. Though advocates on the ground support key parts of what is included in the bill, concerns remain about the extent of the reforms and what it stops short of achieving.
PORT ANGELES, WA -- Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is beginning a tour of national park sites – including some in the Pacific Northwest. It comes as the Trump administration continues one of the most serious attacks on American public lands in recent memory.
Burgum is scheduled to visit Olympic National Park today during a visit to Washington State. It is Burgum’s second field tour in a week, after visiting an LNG processing facility in Louisiana earlier this month.
A new analysis by the Sierra Club indicates that the Trump Administration’s deregulatory actions will have severe environmental and public health consequences across the country, particularly in Texas.
Washington, DC – Today, the House Ways and Means Committee included H.R. 9495 in their section of Donald Trump’s absurdly named “Big Beautiful Bill”.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous released the following statement:
WYOMING - on Monday, May 5, the Sierra Club unveiled a new tool that shows the public health and environmental toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s safeguards against coal pollution.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its portion of the federal budget reconciliation bill that will devastate Americans in a variety of ways, from gutting Medicaid to slashing programs that fight climate change and protect clean air and water. The legislation will be marked up in a committee meeting tomorrow. In response, Sierra Club state chapters in oil and gas producing states released statements.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee released their draft budget reconciliation proposal, which included drastic cuts to clean energy, vehicles, and manufacturing project tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund tax breaks for Trump and his billionaire friends.