Press Releases

As major financial institutions and oil companies prepare to gather for their annual general meetings this spring, they’re facing growing pressure from shareholders and activists to commit not to engage in or give financial support for drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Earlier today, state legislators introduced a bill that effectively provides a financial bailout to two FirstEnergy nuclear power plants.

  SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2019) – This Earth Month, the Sierra Club -- the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization -- has partnered with the stop-motion animated film, Missing Link. The partnership is designed to inspire audiences to visit sc.org/missinglink to join a Sierra Club outing near them. Missing Link opens nationwide April 12

  SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2019) – This Earth Month, the Sierra Club -- the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization -- has partnered with the stop-motion animated film, Missing Link. The partnership is designed to inspire audiences to visit sc.org/missinglink to join a Sierra Club outing near them. Missing Link opens nationwide April 12

Annapolis, M.D.--The Maryland Senate just passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA). CEJA will accelerate the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 50% by 2030, provide millions of dollars to workforce development programs, and remove a subsidy that currently goes to polluting trash incinerators.

Sierra Club submitted 57,722 comments yesterday to former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding that he drop his decision to try and scrap climate safeguards for new power plants.

BOSTON, MA -- On Saturday, over 50 municipal officials gathered at Framingham State University for the culminating event of a year-long series of Climate Leadership Summits organized by the Massachusetts Sierra Club.

Sierra Club Supporters Testify Against Rollback of Mercury Safeguard’s Legal Foundation

Today, March 12, the New Mexico legislature passed the Energy Transition Act (SB 489), a bill that will make electricity generation 100 percent carbon-free by 2045 from the state’s investor-owned utilities.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A coalition of clean energy advocates have filed expert analyses with North Carolina utility regulators finding that the Duke Energy’s long-range plans would cost customers too much money by keeping aging, inefficient coal plants online, building new power plants that are not needed to meet electricity demand, and by failing to tap the full potential of abundant, low-cost, clean energy resources like solar and energy efficiency.