Charleston, WV -- Today, a newly formed West Virginia Climate Alliance, a group of local environmental and social justice organizations with the intent of promoting public education and beginning a dialogue with the citizens of West Virginia on the impending climate crisis. Today they released a new 16-page report titled A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change.
After years of blocking funding for rebuilding Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Donald Trump announced a plan yesterday to release the recovery funds.
Washington, DC -- Tonight, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
“As we mourn the loss of Justice Ginsburg, we should reflect on her words that ‘Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.’
Environmental groups publish full page ads in major newspapers outlining key climate actions as state grapples with unprecedented wildfires Leading climate and environmental justice groups published an open letter today calling on the people of California to urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to accelerate California’s transition off of fossil fuels. The letter, which was signed by California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA), Earthjustice, and the Sierra Club, appeared as a full page ad today in both the Los Angeles Times and the Sacramento Bee.
El Sierra Club expresa su gratitud por la enormidad de las contribuciones de la comunidad latina al movimiento ambiental y nuestra organización, pese a que este movimiento no ha sido todo lo abierto que debería.
WASHINGTON, DC - In September 1968, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to proclaim National Hispanic Heritage Week. The original celebration was observed during the week that included September 15 and 16 and was expanded in 1988 by Congress to a month-long celebration (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15), effective the following year.
Today, the Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) approved a siting certificate for the Ohio State University’s proposed gas plant.
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission voted today to once again extend the utility disconnection moratorium for residential customers until November 1, 2020. The commission decided 2 - 1 to extend the moratorium in order to safeguard the public health of Wisconsin residents during the COVID-19 health crisis. The PSC had voted in March, July, and August to extend the moratorium due to the risk to people’s lives from the high level of COVID cases in the state.
Advocates from across Iowa, including Sierra Club, NAACP, Des Moines Black Liberation Movement, and other environmental groups, are calling on the Iowa Utility Board to ban utility shut-offs until November 1, 2020.
MONTGOMERY, AL -- On Monday, the Sierra Club asked the Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) to reconsider a billion-dollar Southern Company fracked gas proposal, citing secret negotiations that the company and its subsidiary Alabama Power kept from the Commission and other parties. Sierra Club’s filing also raised a First Amendment claim against the PSC’s “media coverage plan,” which prevented public communication about the contested issues in this case.