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Sierra Club and the Sierra Club Foundation, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit over its final rule requiring public companies to disclose climate-related risks to their businesses and plans to manage or mitigate them.

Final rule significantly curtailed emissions disclosure requirements despite widespread support

Groups aim to defend against industry efforts to maximize offshore drilling in public waters

Gulf, Alaska, and environmental groups filed a motion to intervene in an oil industry lawsuit challenging the Interior Department’s Five-Year Program for offshore oil-and-gas leasing — to prevent industry from grabbing even more public waters for profit.

EPA’s oil and gas methane standards are firmly rooted in science and the law

The NYS Assembly included new policy that codifies a 6% cap on energy bills for eligible low-income New Yorkers

Gavin Kearney, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The whole overarching point (of the federal rules) is that groundwater contamination is a big problem; it’s really unsafe, and we have to prevent it. You can’t let water in (to a coal ash impoundment); you can’t let water out; you can’t let water just sit inside…

Senate champions full NY HEAT Act, which will save New Yorkers money and fight climate change

Washington D.C. residents should not have to pay for Washington Gas’s bad investments.

Stefanie Tsosie, Attorney, Tribal Partnerships Program: “It’s a band-aid for an aging pipeline. The risk of an oil spill will still exist in the Bad River watershed. And instead of moving it out of the watershed, [Enbridge moves] it upstream of the reservation. So now the entire reservation would be subject to an oil spill.”

La revisión ambiental del condado nuevamente se considera ilegal y se suspenden permisos locales

County’s environmental review again deemed unlawful, local permitting halted

Assembly Members Jeffrey Dinowtiz and Karines Reyes, and Senator Sepúlveda rallied with union leaders, community members, and advocates to urge Governor Hochul to include the Green Transit, Green Jobs, Bill in Budget

Susan Stevens Miller, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The energy sector is profoundly transitioning away from toxic fossil fuels to clean renewable energy, and Maryland is among the states that can lead it there.”

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Those rules are a regulatory Rube Goldberg machine, with numerous loopholes and many different tracks allowing companies to minimize the bonds they have to post.”

Final rule improves upon status quo, but still enables companies to conceal financial risks

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “If the commission decides not to abide by those constitutional obligations, it certainly subjects itself to legal arguments that it acted unlawfully. We’re hoping we don’t have to cross that bridge.”

Elizabeth Livingston de Calderon, Attorney, Fossil Fuels Program: “There’s not sufficient information to know what the full risks are, and the repercussions of no one understanding are huge.”