Press Releases

May 1, 2026

KANSAS CITY, Kansas – Last night, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County voted 8-2 to approve Accelergen’s proposed East Side Energy Storage project, which at 300 MW when complete will be among the newest and largest utility-scale energy storage systems in Kansas.

April 30, 2026

WASHINGTON — Under Executive Order 14253, a directive to scrub non-English language from National Park Service websites, and numerous

April 30, 2026

Sacramento, CA - In a written decision today, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) denied a SoCalGas application that would have charged customers $266 million to fund the controversial Angeles Link Project pipeline. This decision means that SoCalGas will either drop the project entirely or require shareholders to pay to develop the risky project. 

April 30, 2026

Washington, DC – Today, the nation’s largest and most influential environmental advocacy organization weighed in on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais that will further erode the landmark Voting Rights Act and dilute the voting power of minorities.

In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Loren Blackford released the following statement:

April 30, 2026

Yesterday, U.S. Steel announced it will invest nearly $2 billion to build a direct reduced iron (DRI) facility at Big River Steel Works in Osceola, Arkansas. The DRI will provide a cleaner input to feed into the company’s electric arc furnaces that produce steel. Nippon Steel, the parent company of U.S. Steel, noted in a press release for a Japanese audience that the investment will ensure steel remains “mined, melted, and made in America” as the global market turns “towards decarbonization.”

April 30, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied motions for stay, pending judicial review, of both the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s (VDEQ) and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (NCDEQ) Clean Water Act Section 401 Certifications for Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) Southgate Amendment pipeline project. 

April 30, 2026

WASHINGTON — States more than doubled their progress on implementing federal funding for the nation’s EV highway charging network in 2025, according to a new Sierra Club report out today. However, more than 96% of all available funds remain unspent.

April 29, 2026

Bill aimed at stopping Trump administration’s efforts to erase Native American history on public lands

April 29, 2026

'Shared Ground' policy framework affirms protecting public lands, expanding affordable housing are complementary, not competing, priorities

April 29, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Several environmental groups filed a challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) certificate for the controversial Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, or SSEP pipeline.