Press Releases

Sierra Club Report Finds MidAmerican Energy Owner, Berkshire Hathaway, One of the Deadliest Polluters in the Nation

Des Moines, IA — A new report from the Sierra Club reveals that global banks are propping up polluting coal plants across the U.S. by financing the parent companies behind these coal utilities.

New Report: Major Global Banks are Financing Deadly US Coal Plants Thanks to Loopholes in Their Climate Commitments

Sierra Club analysis reveals banks continue to provide funding to coal utility parent companies, despite policies to restrict project-level loans to coal plants

Vanguard Supports Only 2% of US Environmental, Social Shareholder Resolutions in 2023

Asset Manager’s New Stewardship Report Shows Decline Even From 2022’s Low Voting Performance; Vanguard’s Support for Environmental & Social Measures Is Even Less Than BlackRock’s

Sierra Club Endorses Pine Tree Power Ballot Measure in Maine

AUGUSTA, ME. – Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of ‘Question 3’, the Pine Tree Power ballot measure.

Lawsuit Challenges Massive Offshore Lease Sale for Failing to Properly Consider Gulf Communities and Climate

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gulf community and environmental groups sued the Department of the Interior today to challenge an offshore oil and gas lease sale that would offer up more than 67 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing. The department plans to hold the sale September 27.

Community Members Resist Rocky Mountain Power’s Unprecedented Rate Hike in Public Comment Hearing

WYOMING – Yesterday, Wyoming’s Public Service Commission (PSC) held its second public comment hearing for community members to weigh in on Rocky Mountain Power’s (RMP) rate hike, the largest proposed rate increase that customers have seen in over a decade. Several community members participated in the hearing, advocating against the proposed rate increase that would raise residential rates by 20.3%, increasing average costs for customers by about $16.42 per month to start on January 1, 2024. 

Lawsuit Spurs Agreement to Better Protect Endangered Rice’s Whale From Offshore Drilling

BALTIMORE, MD — Under a settlement agreement approved today in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect the Rice’s whale – a critically endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico — and other imperiled marine species from harmful oil and gas drilling.

SBTi’s Proposed Standards Represent Important Progress in Tackling Greenwashing and Ensuring Credible, Science-Based Net-Zero Pledges from Financial Institutions

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Public Citizen, Sierra Club engage with global standard setter on proposed guidance for financial institutions

Environmental Groups Sue Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, Governor Josh Shapiro for Not Holding Oil, Gas Companies Accountable for Abandoned Wells

HARRISBURG, PA — Today, PennFuture, the Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, Protect Penn-Trafford, and Earthworks filed a joint lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including Governor Josh Shapiro and the General Assembly, challenging the constitutionality of a law that prevents the Commonwealth from protecting communities from the harm caused by abandoned methane wells.

In a Victory for New Hampshire Communities, Saint Gobain to Close Highly Polluting Plant in Merrimack

MERRIMACK, NH. – Today, Saint Gobain announced it will close its Performance Plastics plant in Merrimack. The move is welcome news for local residents who have ingested high levels of dangerous per- and poly-fluoroalkyl compounds, or PFAS for decades.