Representatives from the Good Neighbors Louisiana coalition dropped in on Hyundai’s offices in Gonzales to present the company with a list of demands regarding its proposed $5.8 billion steel mill in Donaldsonville, as well as comments filed with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) about the company’s failure to establish safeguards on toxic dust from transportation and construction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released draft text from Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA). The draft legislation attacks five years of successful and cost-reducing federal investments in electric vehicle charging, clean trucks and buses, and clean transit on which communities across the country rely.
Today, Rep. Rosa DeLauro introduced the Fair Trade for Working Families Resolution, a bill that would ensure U.S. trade policy boosts domestic manufacturing, protects safe, family-supporting jobs, and reduces pollution at home and abroad.
Today, Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter submitted a detailed analysis to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality highlighting the flaws and errors in Hyundai Steel’s air permit application for its proposed steel plant in Ascension Parish. The expert comments, with detailed exhibits, demonstrate how the company failed to consider cleaner alternative technologies in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the Louisiana Public Trust Doctrine, and the company's own environmental commitments.
Yesterday, U.S. Steel announced it will invest nearly $2 billion to build a direct reduced iron (DRI) facility at Big River Steel Works in Osceola, Arkansas. The DRI will provide a cleaner input to feed into the company’s electric arc furnaces that produce steel. Nippon Steel, the parent company of U.S. Steel, noted in a press release for a Japanese audience that the investment will ensure steel remains “mined, melted, and made in America” as the global market turns “towards decarbonization.”
Sierra Club has joined over 340 civil society organizations in signing an open statement calling on governments around the world to disengage from investor-state dispute settlements, or ISDS, a system that “threatens a just transition from fossil fuels and the urgent need for a social and ecological transformation for people and the planet.”
A coalition of labor unions, community and climate groups have written to the Hyundai CEO asking the company to ensure its proposed $5.8 billion steel mill in Donaldsonville meets strong health and environmental standards, while providing quality jobs.
Today, Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter submitted another round of comments to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality after identifying additional errors, inconsistencies, and misrepresentations in Hyundai’s air permit application for its proposed steel plant. The comments highlight why LDEQ should not expedite a permit for this new steel plant.
GLOBAL—Momentum is building towards an even cleaner electric vehicle (EV), according to a scorecard of 18 global automakers. Leading companies are producing cars that don’t just run on electricity but are manufactured using decarbonized and circular materials, such as fossil-free steel and recycled battery minerals, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment, workers and communities.
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down tariffs implemented by Donald Trump. The Court ruled the president cannot invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enact across-the-board global tariffs.