Hartford, CT -- Thirty-five Connecticut-based organizations delivered a letter today to Commissioner Katie Dykes of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) urging her to stop the construction of a recently approved fracked gas power plant in Killingly and impose a moratorium on all new gas and oil infrastructure until DEEP develops a plan for energy development that is consistent with the state’s climate goals.
Just days after a coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), the project’s developers have announced they are voluntarily suspending new construction activities in the habitats of endangered species
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) inspectors “found unsafe construction practices at work sites on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline”
El Sierra Club y una coalición de aliados ambientales presentaron hoy una querella contra la “ACA rule”, también conocida como el Plan de Energía Sucia del ex cabildero carbonero y administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA), Andrew Wheeler.
LANSING, MI -- Earlier this week, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined twenty two other Attorneys General and seven local governments in a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s so-called “Affordable Clean Energy” rule, more appropriately called the Dirty Power Rule. Should it be enacted, the Dirty Power rule would gut the life-saving standards of the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis.
Kansas City, KS -- Earlier today, the Sierra Club released a report on Evergy’s coal fleet titled Kansas Pays the Price: A Comparison of Coal Plants and Renewable Energy for Electric Consumers of Evergy, KCP&L, and Westar. The report finds that the coal plants operated by Evergy--a company that provides power across eastern Kansas and western Missouri under the KCP&L and Westar brands--are losing hundreds of millions of dollars on coal power relative to market energy pricing, and will continue to do so for decades to come.
Washington, DC -- This morning, E&E News reported that the Trump administration is deploying armed guards at the CDC to intimidate George Luber, the former head of the CDC's Climate and Health Program who is expected to file a whistleblower complaint this week.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has joined the growing list of multinational financial institutions that have drawn a hard line against financing for oil and gas drilling or exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Sierra Club and a coalition of environmental allies launched a lawsuit today challenging former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s “ACE” rule -- known by many as the Dirty Power Plan.
BOULDER, COLORADO – The Sierra Club and Nature Needs Half, an international coalition formed in 2009 to advance the protection of 50% of Earth’s land and seas, proudly announce a new partnership to help halt the Sixth Extinction and provide a feasible and affordable solution to the climate crisis.