Today, Sierra Club appealed the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s unlawful approval of We Energies proposal for new Liquified Natural Gas storage (LNG) facilities in Ixonia and Bluff Creek. The Sierra Club appeal challenges the PSC’s failure to adequately consider clean energy and efficiency alternatives such as weatherizing homes and incentivizing industrial users to cut use during peak heating days. The evidence before the PSC demonstrated that the LNG facilities will raise bills and invest in long-lived fossil fuel infrastructure, which is inconsistent with federal and state policies calling for a reduction in gas use. The LNG facilities would meet a peak demand for gas that is unlikely to occur and, if it did, could be met with much less expensive alternatives like efficiency and customer incentives.
Press Releases
Houston, TX – Today, in a speech to the fossil fuel industry at CERAWeek, EPA Administrator Michael Regan previewed the Biden Administration’s plans for safeguarding communities from deadly and dangerous power plant pollution.
IPCC climate assessment shows urgent need for climate action around the world and at home in Indiana
As one of the worst states in the U.S. for carbon pollution, Indiana is critical to creating climate solutions.
20 community members with Iowa CCI, Sierra Club Beyond Coal, and DSM BLM took part in a demonstration Thursday afternoon during an Iowa Energy Center Board Meeting. The group gave public comments, and demanded the CEO of MidAmerican Energy - Kelcey Brown, commit to phasing out coal plants by 2030, end utility shut offs, and invest in energy efficiency programs.
President Biden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced yesterday plans to use $1 billion, allocated by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to clean up and restore severely degraded sites throughout the Great Lakes region. The investment will target the most polluted sites, known as “Areas of Concern,” many of which are in environmental justice communities heavily burdened by toxic industrial legacies.
Oklahoma City, OK -- A new report published today by the Sierra Club identifies key lessons to be learned from 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, which left over seven hundred people dead and caused approximately $200 billion in damages.
New Orleans, LA -- A new report published today by the Sierra Club identifies key lessons to be learned from 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, which left over seven hundred people dead and caused approximately $200 billion in damages.
Kansas City, KS -- A new report published today by the Sierra Club identifies key lessons to be learned from 2021’s Winter Storm Uri, which left over seven hundred people dead and caused approximately $200 billion in damages.
AUSTIN, TX -- Today, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted to approve a weak and legally insufficient state implementation plan (SIP) to address the dangerous levels of SO2, or sulfur pollution, created by Vistra’s Martin Lake Coal Plant (Martin Lake) in Rusk County, Texas. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must now review the plan by this summer, as required by the Clean Air Act, and should reject the plan as insufficient and inadequate.
Boston, MA – The grid operator for New England, ISO-NE, has decided to delay fixing a rule that makes it harder for renewable energy projects to replace unneeded fossil fuel power plants on the grid. Last week, the grid operator, along with the region’s largest utility companies, voted to delay making the urgent reform to the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) by two more years in a move that will keep open aging fossil fuel plants that continue polluting communities across the region and unnecessarily charging customers on their bills.