NAOMA, W.Va. – Today, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia ruled in favor of Coal River Mountain Watch, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club, blocking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant a Clean Water Act permit for valley fills associated with the Turkeyfoot Surface Mine.
Washington, D.C. - Donald Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to give the coal industry access to potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, even as the industry has been in decline for nearly two decades.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Today, Clean Grid Alliance, Fresh Energy, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, and Sierra Club (collectively the Clean Energy Organizations or CEOs) filed comments at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regarding Minnesota Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) (Docket No. 25-127).
RICHMOND, Va. - Today, several environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Clean Water Act permit for the controversial Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, or SSEP pipeline
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Washington, DC - Sixteen health and environmental groups have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency outlining severe flaws in its rule to repeal the Endangerment Finding and motor vehicle climate pollution standards and describing how the Clean Air Act requires the agency to reconsider that damaging action.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted to approve a controversial proposal, backed by the Trump Administration, to allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of one of the country’s most visited wilderness areas.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – New analyses have found that Wisconsinites across the state and across political affiliations strongly dislike data data centers, citing concerns around affordability, energy and water.
RALEIGH — More than 133 million cubic yards of coal ash at North Carolina coal-fired power plants, with 40.2 million cubic yards at the Duke Energy’s Roxboro plant alone, could more seriously impact local waterways after the EPA moved last week to seriously weaken rules that have protected waters from toxic coal ash for over a decade. In response, the Sierra Club is urging North Carolinians to share concerns at an upcoming EPA hearing and submit public comments.
TOPEKA, Kansas – Today, the Shawnee County Commission voted 3-0 to approve an ordinance for utility-scale solar that moves beyond their initial moratorium toward a comprehensive, permitting framework , expanding the opportunity for cleaner, cheaper energy sources to be built quickly at a time when energy affordability is top-of-mind for many households.