Sierra Club Celebrates Establishment of Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
August 8, 2023
Grand Canyon, AZ – Today, President Biden issued a proclamation utilizing the Antiquities Act to establish the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument to protect 917,618 acres of public lands...
Sierra Club Statement on Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument Listening Session
July 18, 2023
FLAGSTAFF – Today, BLM and Forest Service hosted a listening session -- to hear from hundreds of Tribal and community leaders -- who overwhelmingly supported the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument -- to protect 1.1...
ACC Approves SRP Gas Plant Expansion and APS Settlement Deal in Decisions that are Bad for Ratepayers and Climate
June 21, 2023
...SRP and APS share little concern for...the public interest, and ratepayers end up on the hook-- Today’s decisions are a blow for Arizona’s communities who trust the ACC to act in their benefit, to air quality, to climate.”
Sierra Club Opposes SRP's Request to ACC to reverse its Decision to Deny Siting Approval for Coolidge Plant Expansion
June 20, 2023
..."SRP is now asking the ACC to just say okay to the project without additional review despite the significant changes SRP is proposing. Because of those significant changes, SRP needs to file an amended certificate of environmental compatibility...
Sierra Club Statement on Secretary Haaland’s visit to Grand Canyon to hear from Tribes on the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument
May 21, 2023
GRAND CANYON – On Saturday, Secretary of the Department of Interior, Deb Haaland, met with Tribal and community leaders at Grand Canyon National Park to learn more about a proposed national monument to protect more than one million acres of lands...
News Release: Glen Canyon Dam Operations Must Safeguard Grand Canyon’s Humpback Chub
March 10, 2023
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation must manage Colorado River flows to prevent non-native smallmouth bass populations from establishing, thereby jeopardizing threatened humpback chub in the Grand Canyon, conservationists warned in formal comments...
News Release from Grijalva: Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act
March 6, 2023
Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) announced...the "Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act" to permanently protect...from foreign mining operations...destroy tribal cultural and religious heritage sites...sacred to...tribal nations in Arizona...for millennia...
Uranium Mine Gears Up Near Grand Canyon National Park
December 7, 2022
Senate must pass Grand Canyon mining ban before 117th Congress ends
Arizona Climate Leaders Celebrate Historic Investments for Arizona
September 1, 2022
...to Address Extreme Weather, Expand Clean Energy, and Create Jobs -- Leaders Thank President Biden and Arizona’s Congressional Climate Supporters for Passing the Inflation Reduction Act... [click thru for PDF (3-pg) -- plus, a video of full press...
Calling AZ Senators to Support "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022"
August 2, 2022
Groups Call on Senator Sinema and Senator Kelly to Support Bold Climate Action -- and to vote “Yes” on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 -- 6 groups present petition (signed by 560 Arizonans) -- to both Senator Kyrsten Sinema and Senator Mark...