LAS VEGAS— A federal panel today halted construction on a massive data center near Boulder City, Nevada, granting environmental groups and local residents a stay in their fight against the hyperscale facility before construction began.
Donaldsonville, LA - As impacted residents provide public testimony later today on Hyundai Steel’s air permit for its proposed steel plant, Sierra Club is urging significant permit changes and pollution reductions. The hearing is part of a too-brief public comment period that will now end on September 15th after the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) granted a short 13-day extension following requests from multiple local groups and individuals including Sierra Club.
AUSTIN, Texas – Ahead of today’s public hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs, the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter is urging legislators to require data centers to report their water usage and to pay close attention to the water used by fossil fuel power plants that keep these centers running.
Reporting today indicates that Donald Trump plans to host oil industry executives at the White House tomorrow, even as the average gas price is over $4 a gallon and Big Oil companies reported $85.2 billion in combined Q2 profits.
Environmental and health groups are urging the Trump EPA not to weaken life-saving air pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles like transit and school buses, delivery trucks, garbage trucks and long-haul semi-trucks.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration finalized a rule setting up a weakening Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for heavy-duty commercial vehicles.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has spent over a year quietly pressing the National Park Service to give up land inside Yosemite National Park so a private developer can build a road connecting its own property to park land, according to a new investigation from NOTUS. If approved, the corrupt back-room deal would break with a commitment dating back more than 150 years to protect Yosemite for the public good.
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Washington Post reported that one of Trump’s recent secret deals to cancel offshore wind projects and bolster fossil fuels will result in a pay day for one of Trump’s million-dollar donors to the tune of $900 million.
ATLANTA - After a tumultuous and secretive process, the Georgia Public Service Commission staff approved the contract between Georgia Power and OpenAI to power a 3.2 gigawatt hyperscale data center planned for Effingham County– without a direct vote from the commission itself.
CLEVELAND – A coalition of environmental and public health organizations filed a federal lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to let Cleveland off the hook from having to clean up its smog-choked air.