Baton Rouge, LA — Today, Earthjustice, the Alliance for Affordable Energy Louisiana, and the Sierra Club urged the Trump administration to abandon its plan to put the State of Louisiana in charge of oversight of toxic coal ash waste due to the state’s abysmal environmental track record.
LOS ANGELES – This afternoon, the Los Angeles City Council voted to allow the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to disregard the concerns of Angelenos and environmental advocates and move forward with its ill-conceived plans to retrofit the Scattergood gas plant to be able to burn a mix of hydrogen and natural gas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sierra Club and its North Carolina Chapter condemn a recent ICE operation at Wilson Creek Recreation Area in Pisgah National Forest that resulted in 13 arrests.
DONALDSONVILLE, La. — Labor, environmental health, civil rights, and community groups are warning that the recently published proposed air permit for Hyundai’s steel mill will have a severe impact on community and worker health, exacerbating cancer, asthma, and respiratory and nervous system disease.
INDIANA – Attorney General Rokita has filed an intervention in a long-dormant case in an attempt to block the retirement of the Rockport coal plant in Spencer County, which is planned to close by the end of 2028.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the public comment period closes today on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rule, the Sierra Club submitted and joined multiple filings opposing the rollback. These include an organizational comment, a grassroots submission backed by more than 2,000 Sierra Club members and supporters, and two coalition comment letters addressing the proposal’s legal and financial-market implications.
BATON ROUGE, La. – On Friday the Sierra Club filed testimony on Entergy’s expensive gas plant expansion proposal for the Meta Hyperion data center, urging the Louisiana Public Service Commission to reject the utility’s plans for building seven additional gas plants.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has authorized two dangerous and unnecessary pipelines in the Southeast.
Washington, D.C. - Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Sierra Club that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission properly issued Order 2023—an order that directs grid operators to address longstanding delays with interconnection queues and speed up the process. Order 2023 required critical reforms to add more clean energy to the electricity grid.
WISCONSIN – A new report from the Sierra Club, Thirsty Power: Coal and gas will leave us high and dry, analyzes Wisconsin’s current power generation, the water needed for that power, and the potential impacts on Wisconsin’s water as Big Tech tries to build more data centers across the state.