Sierra Club Applauds Tammy Duckworth’s Victory #VoteResults
Sierra Club-endorsed candidate Tammy Duckworth defeated Mark Kirk to become the next Senator for Illinois. Sierra Club members and supporters[…]
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New York Offshore Wind Lease Auction Set #CleanEnergy
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the agency charged with leasing federal waters for offshore wind development, advanced offshore[…]
Read moreSierra Club Applauds New England States for Wind and Solar Selection in Clean Energy RFP #CleanEnergy #BeyondCoal
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island have selected approximately 460 megawatts (MWs) of new wind and solar projects for the New[…]
Read moreSierra Club Political Committee Releases New Video Urging African American Voters to Vote #Pollution #Voting
The Sierra Club Political Committee released a new video urging African Americans in swing states to vote. The video features[…]
Read moreVirginia Groups Take Legal Action Over Federal Agency For Refusing To Allow Citizen Inspection of Coal Mine #SAMS #Lawsuit
On October 21st, the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards (SAMS) and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit appealing an Interior Board[…]
Read moreSierra Club Welcomes Framework for Tribal Engagement in Land Management #Cooperation #Inclusion
On October 21, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued a Secretarial Order encouraging cooperative management between the Department of[…]
Read moreEnvironmental Groups Seek to Block Gas Pipeline Threatening Environmental Justice Communities in Three States #FERC #Pipeline
On October 25th, the Sierra Club, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, and Flint Riverkeeper filed a motion for a stay of the Federal[…]
Read moreSierra Club Responds to Obama’s Comments on Dakota Access Pipeline #StandingRock
In an interview late Tuesday evening, President Obama commented on the ongoing efforts led by the Standing Rock Sioux to[…]
Read moreSierra Club Statement on U.S District Court Approval of Volkswagen Settlement #EmissionsFraud
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer approved Volkswagen’s settlement with regulators and vehicle owners over the company’s use of emissions cheating[…]
Read moreRenewable Energy Surpasses Coal as World’s Largest Source of New Electricity Capacity #CleanEnergy
Clean, renewable energy has surpassed coal to become the largest source of new installed electricity in the world, according to[…]
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