Press Releases

June 24, 2026

Sacramento, CA – Yesterday, the California Attorney General and California Energy Commission (CEC) filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for its backroom deal that led to the cancellation of a major offshore wind project in exchange for out-of-state fossil fuel development.

June 24, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sierra Club, as a leading member of the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, is excited to introduce the new One Million Kids Outdoors (1MKO) initiative today. The 1MKO initiative is a national movement that aims to get one million kids outdoors over the next year to transform their health and well-being. 

June 23, 2026

DENVER – This week Sierra Club and Make Polluters Pay released a series of ads targeting Rep. Jeff Hurd and raising awareness in Colorado's 3rd district about a congressional Republican effort to give fossil fuel corporations immunity from climate damages. 

June 23, 2026

RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced yesterday that Duke Energy lowered its proposed rate increase from 18 percent to 11.6 percent, demonstrating that the monopoly utility – which raked in nearly $5 billion in profits last year – will respond to robust public pressure and rein in its efforts to make even more money at the expense of captive ratepayers.

June 22, 2026

Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter called on the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to conduct a project-specific environmental justice analysis of Hyundai Steel’s proposed facility in Louisiana. The request comes after the company largely removed an initial environmental justice analysis from its revised permit application.

June 18, 2026

INDIANAPOLIS — Today, the Trump Administration and Department of Energy (DOE) announced yet another extension for the Culley and Schahfer coal-fired power plants since they were ordered to stay open at the end of 2025.

June 18, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups today urged a federal court to move quickly in forcing an end to the Defense Department’s de facto ban on new wind energy projects. 

June 18, 2026

During its monthly open meeting today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) indicated that it no longer plans to complete cumulative impact analyses when conducting environmental reviews of projects. The change was announced in an order approving the Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage Project.

June 18, 2026

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Southern Environmental Law Center filed a motion for preliminary injunction today in Wake County Superior Court and challenged the N.C.

June 18, 2026

HARTFORD, Ct. --Today, Sierra Club Connecticut and State Representatives Minnie Gonzalez, Maryam Khan, and Jilian Gilchrist hosted Black Lungs Matter, a Juneteenth Press Conference, at the Connecticut Legislative Office Building.