Press Releases

September 3, 2025

Boise, ID — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a public comment period on its proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule, a critical conservation policy safeguarding nearly 60 million acres of undeveloped national forest lands across the country.

September 3, 2025

DULUTH, Minn. – Today, elected officials and community members gathered outside of Minnesota Power’s headquarters to call on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to reject the utility’s private equity acquisition.

September 2, 2025

Missoula, MT — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a public comment period on its proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule, a critical conservation policy safeguarding nearly 60 million acres of undeveloped national forest lands across the country and 6.4 million acres in Montana.

August 29, 2025

Eddystone, PA - The Trump administration extended its emergency order to force the Eddystone power plant to stay online past its scheduled retirement date. The initial 90-day order was issued in May.

August 29, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va.  – Following the submission of over 5,000 community comments from West Virginians, the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (PSC) has ruled on a proposed rate hike by American Electric Power (AEP). While the impact to customer bills is still unknown, the ruling included several significant hard-fought wins. 

August 29, 2025

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. –The Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) Board voted 6–0 to approve a $1.57 billion fossil fuel facility at the site of the former St. Johns River Power Park. The plant, which won’t come online until 2031 or later, will saddle Jacksonville residents with decades of higher bills and continued reliance on polluting natural gas.

August 28, 2025

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Aug. 28, 2025) - Today, the Forsyth County Commissioners unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution opposing Transco’s proposed Southeast Supply Enhancement Project (SSEP).

August 28, 2025

Washington, DC — As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall approaches, news reports say that the Trump administration has begun to place on leave dozens of FEMA workers who raised concerns of funding cuts and staffing shortages putting lives at risk in the event of another Katrina-level disaster.

August 27, 2025

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule, an extremely popular conservation policy enacted in 2001 to protect  more than 45 million acres of pristine lands in national forests across 36 states and Puerto Rico. The longstanding rule generally protects against new roadbuilding for logging and oil-and-gas drilling in unfragmented, backcountry forestlands that have never been disturbed by major development. 

August 25, 2025

Washington, DC – A review of official Trump administration documents obtained by the Sierra Club shows further opposition to Donald Trump’s attempt to whitewash history on public lands.