Press Releases

May 18, 2024

Puerto Rico - Yesterday, Hurricane Fiona made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico and in no time left all Puerto Ricans without power. Today, Sierra Club organizers on the ground are assessing the damage in communities across the island while being themselves without power or drinkable water.

19 de septiembre de 2022

El Huracán Fiona impactó ayer en la isla de Puerto Rico y en poco tiempo dejó a todos los residentes sin electricidad. 

16 de septiembre de 2022

La administración Biden anunció un significativo paso adelante en sus esfuerzos por reducir las emisiones industriales de carbono y contaminación. 

September 15, 2022

Washington, DC – The Department of the Interior has announced that it will reinstate leases for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

September 16, 2022

NEW YORK – NRG-owned Astoria Gas Turbine Power and Beacon Wind filed a joint petition with the New York State Public Service Commission yesterday seeking approval of a sale transferring ownership of the land under the existing gas-powered peaker plant to Beacon Wind for electrical interconnection to their 1,230 MW wind project.

September 15, 2022

TOLEDO, OH -- Today, the Biden administration announced a significant step forward i

15 de septiembre de 2022

El Sierra club se unió a más de 150 grupos progresistas en el lanzamiento de la Campaña Soluciones para la Contaminación (#SolutionsForPollution). 

September 15, 2022

A global coalition of advocacy nonprofits including ShareAction, BankTrack, Reclaim Finance, and the Sierra Club have written to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) and the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) steering committee, urging NZBA members to restrict their financing of fossil fuel projects, including coal, in order to align with the recently strengthened Race to Zero criteria. Read the letter here.

September 15, 2022

Hammond, Ind. – BP has agreed to pay $2.75 million for penalties and environmental projects to resolve a 2019 lawsuit that charged the company’s more than century-old Whiting Refinery on the shore of Lake Michigan just south of Chicago with repeatedly viola

September 14, 2022

LOS ANGELES-- A federal judge has vacated a U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision that would have allowed Cadiz Inc.