Press Releases

September 22, 2026

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Today, Sierra Club released its sixth Dirty Truth Report. Dominion, Duke and Santee Cooper all earned the grade F, with Dominion and Santee earning 0% and Duke earning 13%. The report grades utilities across the country based on how much coal they are retiring, how much gas they are planning and how much renewable energy they are adding. 

September 22, 2026

RALEIGH, N.C. – Today, Sierra Club released its sixth Dirty Truth Report. The report grades 76 utilities across the country based on how much coal they are retiring, how much gas they are planning to build, and how much renewable energy they are adding. 

September 22, 2026

Washington, D.C. - Today, Sierra Club released its sixth Dirty Truth Report. This year, the utilities scored a staggering seven out of 100 in aggregate; this is the lowest score since the first report in 2021 and eight points lower than last year’s Dirty Truth score. The report grades utilities across the country based on how much coal they are retiring, how much gas they are planning, and how much renewable energy they are adding. 

September 21, 2026

Providence, RI - A Trump-appointed judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to slash $7 billion of funding for solar energy projects. 

The Solar For All program provides grant funding to regions across the country in order to expand affordable solar energy to over 900,000 households. Last summer, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency announced it would rescind the funds and ended the program. 

September 21, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trump on Sunday announced that his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle would double as a military complex. According to a post on Truth Social, Trump says the site would house a large number of drones, station snipers on the roof and plaza, and store large quantities of sniper ammunition.

September 21, 2026

INDIANA — The Trump Administration and Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its fourth illegal extension for the Culley and Schahfer coal-fired power plants.

September 28, 2026

SAN ANTONIO - Three environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit today against the developers of two Texas data center campuses with gas-fired power plants, pushing back against the massive projects that lack required permits and pollution-control technology.

September 18, 2026

Sierra Club Applauds Governor Abigail Spanberger's Data Center Executive Order and Policy Framework Release 

September 14, 2026

Phoenix, Ariz. – The Trump administration is seeking to strip the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of one of its most powerful tools for combating climate change by repealing the Endangerment Finding for power plants and permanently stripping the EPA of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. 

September 14, 2026

Salt Lake City – In a move that furthers efforts to dismantle the legal foundation for federal climate regulation, the Trump administration today proposed to repeal the Endangerment finding for power plants – an action that would permanently strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants under the Clean Air Act. It would strip EPA of one of its most powerful tools for combating climate change.