HomeMy WebLinkAbout063025 - Director’s Notes_ From Ben Jealous_ June 2025ALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them.
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Dear John,
This month we announced a MAJOR milestone in our Beyond Coal Campaign <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=d3aece2f2e4e450739f7fca39457e83bc3431bd1136d0ebbcd089e5faa35c4a05c7609eab84152d140da87a1
92b20357e74c726159bbfeeb> . The 390 coal-fired powered plants that have been retired or slated to retire since our immensely successful campaign began have stopped enough pollution to
prevent over one million asthma attacks! The campaign has also prevented nearly 100,000 heart attacks and saved over 60,000 lives.
Thank you for being part of this lifesaving work. We couldn’t do it without your partnership and steadfast commitment to the fight for a cleaner environment and healthy future. Check
out June’s other exciting updates below.
Ben
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SPOTLIGHT
* Our Virginia Chapter released a brand new report on the massive boom in data centers happening in that state and the real costs for communities and the climate. Please check out “Unconstrained
Demand: Virginia’s Data Center Expansion and Its Impacts <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=d3aece2f2e4e450756ad722a68dd423c5d3f1f99c29ad96f8700d0e29885d950dd9a09805fec75b2cbaf4de6aac1e128c8da
1c9015d8743d> .”>>
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* Our Massachusetts Chapter is successfully supporting municipal efforts to reduce single-use plastics <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=d3aece2f2e4e450793d7b0eabd789c4576498680062ff45f12a8d3f
c3d8a32d820736f1db5763de3ddb13d57df568808d4bef2e293ae3fc4> .
* “People shouldn’t be forced to choose between electricity and groceries or medications.” Sierra Club West Virginia is on the front lines of a fight to stop a rate hike proposal <https://click.email
s.sierraclub.org/?qs=d3aece2f2e4e450747e4a2a8d5dacf054789088aa47476564d161b54ff9de553e366ed74989fefd5722883f0ef55740213b2c3ef519692a6> that would subject consumers to the fastest-rising
energy rates in the country.
A Few More Cases We Have in the Courts
* Plaintiff states, whose case the Sierra Club sued to join, won a preliminary injunction in federal court to restore funding for EV charging from the Trump administration's illegal
freeze of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=d3aece2f2e4e4507f991b77427c98e1767e7568b56a575b59393145e7c8b416b0ef91c456545dde
1a358251e73aa60f771b5a53fd8cba7de> . The ruling unlocks roughly $1 billion in federal funding for the program as the case moves forward.
* We also filed suit against the US Department of Energy <https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=d3aece2f2e4e450728960927e455a43bf323eb99a614caab986a43e235cb815c61115dcfb5ca5afe1cb245f308e501e16f73a
8227d6345ea> for illegally failing to respond to Sierra Club’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Thank you for everything you do. Please reach out to me at ben.jealous@sierraclub.org <mailto:ben.jealous@sierraclub.org?subject=> or Shabina at shabina.bahl@sierraclub.org <mailto:shabina.bahl@sier
raclub.org?subject=> with any thoughts or questions.
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