O’Neill, NE -- Today, Nebraska landowners and other pipeline opponents attended the second of two public hearings held by the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to voice their serious concerns about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the media broke the news that Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, will illegally attempt to delay the implementation of the 2015 smog pollution standard by one year, yielding to the demands of polluters and their political allies.
In response, Mary Anne Hitt, Director of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, released the following statement:
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Santa Barbara, California today became the 30th and 31st cities in the country to commit to transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy.
Harrisburg, PA--The Pennsylvania State Senate passed SB 624 today, which creates an exemption to an 80 year old law that protects streams and water supplies. The bill would allow mining companies to predictably damage or pollute streams based on a promise to clean them up later, instead of preventing the damage in the first place. Additionally a portion of the bill states that the act shall retroactively apply to permits that were the subject of an appeal and heard by the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) after June 30, 2016.
ATLANTA, GA -- Today, the Sierra Club launched a new mail program in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in support of Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff. The program is designed to reach 41,000 voters in advance of the June 20 run-off, particularly targeting those who did not vote in the general election.
LOS ANGELES -- Today, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), the largest publicly owned utility in the country, announced that it will pause a $2.2 billion investment in gas plants until it can do a clean energy analysis.
Washington, DC – Coming on the heels of last week’s announcement to abandon the Paris Climate Accord, a group of leading national social change organizations today announced they are divesting funds from ‘pipeline banks’ and instead banking in alignment with their values. This growing international movement represents the next wave of institutions and individuals refusing to do business with banks financing risky fossil fuel infrastructure projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Keystone XL, Trans Mountain and others.
CARSON CITY, NEVADA -- Today, the Nevada Senate passed Assembly Bill 206 to increase the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to 40 percent by 2030. Shortly after, the Assembly passed the amended bill in a concurring vote that sends it to Governor Sandoval’s desk to be signed into law.
Although an amendment in the Senate Commerce, Labor, and Energy Committee lowered the standard as written in the initial bill, this is a big bipartisan step toward a clean energy future in Nevada.
Washington, DC -- Today, less than a week after Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement, the Sierra Club and its allies filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from suspending standards that curb harmful air pollution from the oil and gas industry.
Washington, DC -- Today, Scott Pruitt took to the Sunday shows in a troubled attempt to spin the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, amid a firestorm of international and domestic criticism.