A coalition of some of the nation’s leading climate, youth, and Indigenous organizations will launch a major new mobilization on Friday, Stop the Money Pipeline, that will pressure banks, insurance companies and asset managers to stop financing fossil fuels and deforestation and start respecting human rights and Indigenous sovereignty.
Today, BlackRock announced that it will be joining Climate Action 100+. In response to the decision, members of the BlackRock’s Big Problem network issued the following statements:
Today, Tri-State Generation and Transmission announced its intention to close two coal plants and one coal mine ahead of schedule. Tri-State will retire the Escalante coal plant in New Mexico in 2020 and units 2 and 3 at the Craig coal plant in Colorado sometime before 2030; Craig 1 is already scheduled for retirement in 2025. Tri-State also announced early closure of the Colowyo coal mine in Colorado.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Trump administration’s White House Council on Environmental Quality released new regulations that gut requirements for environmental reviews of fossil fuel projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Albany, N.Y.—Yesterday, Governor Cuomo made climate resilience and climate change solutions implementation a focal point of his State of the State address, announcing new investments and programs in clean energy, clean transportation, and a major $3 billion bond act to preserve and revitalize thousands of acres of ecologically important land as part of a ‘Restore Mother Nature’ platform.
Arkansas PSC aprobó hoy el retiro de la planta térmica carbonera de Dolet Hills en un acuerdo con Southwestern Electric Power Company, convirtiéndola en la número 300 de su tipo desde el principio de la Campaña Más Allá del Carbón del Sierra Club.
Arkansas PSC approved the retirement of the Dolet Hills Power Station today, in a settlement with Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), making it the 300th coal plant proposed to retire since the beginning of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign.
ARKANSAS - Today, Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) announced the retirement of the Dolet Hills coal-fired power plant as part of a settlement with Sierra Club in the Arkansas Public Service Commission. Communities in Shreveport and Northeastern Louisiana have long been affected by air pollution from Dolet Hills, while communities in Arkansas have had to foot the bill to keep the expensive and aging coal plant in operation.
Oakland, CA—Sierra magazine’s January/ February edition is now on newsstands and arriving at subscribers’ homes.
Highlights include:
Sierra Club is raising the alarm on electric utilities that continue to rely on fossil fuels following the release of the 2018 greenhouse gas emissions report by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The Report found that Iowa’s statewide greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2018. The Report makes clear that the source of the emissions increase is a continued reliance on fossil fuels for power generation. According to the Report, greenhouse gas emissions from Iowa’s power plants rose an astonishing 16% between 2017 and 2018, accounting for the vast majority of the state’s emissions increase. This increase is attributed to a 12.6% increase in power generated from coal and a 60.7% increase in power from burning gas.