February 1, 2018
53 local Boards of Health across Massachusetts today urged Governor Charlie Baker to require comprehensive health impact assessments for any new gas infrastructure, to measure the effects on the climate and human health.
Press Releases
February 1, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Earthjustice, representing the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit today to compel the agency to comply with public records laws after extensive delays in providing the public with information it is legally entitled to.
February 1, 2018
The New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee voted unanimously to deny the application for the Northern Pass electricity transmission project today. The Eversource owned project would have transmitted hydroelectric power from Quebec into New England.
February 1, 2018
Washington, DC -- Late yesterday, the Department of the Interior announced that it is attempting to significantly limit legally mandated environmental reviews of fossil fuel operations on public lands. The plans call to limit reviews to six months and shrinks protests over leases from a month to only 10 days. The plan also calls for the Bureau of Land Management to offer all eligible leases for lease quarterly, and for the bureau to no longer draft five-year plans for onshore fossil fuel operations.
February 1, 2018
San Juan, Puerto Rico -- More than four months after Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico, the island is continuing to try and recover. As it does, significant questions have been raised surrounding the future of the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and the independent commission charged with its oversight. PREPA is one of the largest public power utilities in the United States, meaning that it is owned and operated by an agency of the Puerto Rican government.
February 1, 2018
TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its U.S. Wind Industry Fourth Quarter 2017 Market Report yesterday, which found that Oklahoma has surpassed Iowa as the state with the second highest wind energy capacity. Despite wind energy’s increasing success in Oklahoma, the state’s former attorney general and the current U.S.
January 31, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump proclaimed that he had “ended the war on American energy,” the Washington Post reported Trump will be asking for a 72 percent budget cut for clean energy and energy efficiency programs. At the same time, notorious climate denier and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s home state of Oklahoma has now become the number two state for wind power in the country. Pruitt has previously backed Trump’s budgets that contain cuts to both the EPA and clean energy research.
January 31, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request from pipeline builders and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to take another look at the consequences of a case that established downstream greenhouse gas emissions as a crucial component of analyzing the impacts of gas pipelines.
January 31, 2018
Represented by Trustees for Alaska, Sierra Club and other conservation groups today challenged Interior Secretary Zinke’s recent approval of a land exchange to facilitate road construction through wilderness lands in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Zinke’s approval ignores deep flaws in the road building plan, including its exorbitant cost, high winter use risks, and detrimental impacts on the wildlife of the refuge and the Alaska Native subsistence it supports.
January 31, 2018
The Office of Budget and Management recklessly suspended the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2015 Clean Water Rule today, delaying it by at least two years. The Clean Water Rule, also known as the “Waters of the United States Rule”, provides vital clean water protections against dangerous pollution contaminating America’s waterways and drinking water supplies.