Tag: Sierra Club
Sierra Club Releases First Trove of Emails, Texts, and Calendars from Trump’s Department of the Interior
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Sierra Club released the first batch of communications and calendars received from the Department of the Interior in the wake of the organization’s lawsuit following the agency’s failure to respond to public records requests for the documents. The Sierra Club sought calendar items and text and email records between … [continued]
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Energy Department Loans Money For Georgia Power’s Gas Fleet
ATLANTA — The Department of Energy announced it will give a $26.5 billion loan to Southern Company to build the largest, most expensive gas fleet in the nation. The loan will pay for Southern Company’s subsidiary, Georgia Power, plans to build a massive amount of new gas-burning infrastructure, including new combined cycle turbines … [continued]
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Relaunch of Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative
NEW YORK — The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM) announced today that it has relaunched the initiative, in a move that comes almost exactly one year after NZAM suspended activities in the wake of the departure of one of its biggest members, BlackRock. NZAM said its relaunch includes the support of more … [continued]
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Sierra Club Statement on Confirmation Hearing on Nomination of Steve Pearce to Lead BLM
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a confirmation hearing on Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management. During the hearing, Pearce was peppered with questions about his previous support for selling off vast swaths of federal public … [continued]
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House Passes Bills That Would Worsen Energy Affordability & Reliability
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans passed a pair of bills this week that would undercut energy affordability and decrease energy reliability. Passed yesterday, H.R. 4626, the Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act, would make it easier to weaken or revoke federal appliance efficiency standards and harder to update them, locking families … [continued]
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