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NEWS FROM THE LAST WEEK
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE- Campfire has an official COVID-19 page with regularly updated information about the Sierra Club’s response for staff and volunteers. There is also an external-facing Sierra Club COVID-19 response page.
DISASTER PREP DURING COVID-19- With Tropical Storm Isaias moving up the East Coast and wildfires hitting California and many other western states, here are evacuation and safety tips during COVID-19 times from the CDC and the American Red Cross.
HOW ARE YOU SHOWING UP AND DOING THE WORK THIS WEEK? White folks -- what are you reading/learning/doing this week to be anti-racist? Here’s a powerful Instagram post that explains “5 Ways White Women Center Themselves in Conversations About Race.”
As always, don’t forget about the Equity and Justice Department’s resource section.
FRIDAY DUMPSTER-FIRE NEWS- As usual, the Trump administration did a shady thing on Friday. They released a new proposal that would severely limit critical habitat protections for endangered wildlife.
Also in Friday bad news, the Supreme Court left in place an earlier order that permits the Trump administration to temporarily continue construction of the border wall while the underlying legal challenge proceeds in court.
CELEBRATE WITH CHILES- The Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter and coalition partners are cheering the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission for approving a suite of renewable energy investments! Congrats to all those who helped make this happen!
WE’RE BIG FANS- Last week the Sierra Club submitted 7,111 comments to the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from members and supporters along the East Coast calling for final approval of the first large scale offshore wind project in the United States. The Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts is the first in line of nearly 22 GW of planned offshore wind capacity from Maine down toward Georgia.
THIS IS HOW WE DO IT- Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign director Kelly Sheehan Martin wrote up a “how to” blog post for helping our world be less reliant on fossil fuels.
WHO ARE THE PLASTICS? So you agree -- plastic pollution isn’t pretty? Hillary Larson, digital innovation rep for the Sierra Club, wrote an excellent column about plastic pollution and environmental justice.
UTILITY PLAYERS- Beyond Coal campaign rep Katie Rock and fellow Iowa Beyond Coal activists are working to make sure utilities are not shut off for families in need during the pandemic. They reached out to the Iowa Community Action Agencies and learned that getting Sierra Club supporters to demand the Iowa governor increase funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program would be helpful. More than 400 Sierra Club supporters then contacted the governor, and the team just heard that an emergency fund is being set up for families in need! Leaders at the Iowa Community Action Agencies give credit to the Iowa Sierra Club’s grassroots efforts for helping to make this happen.
WHO RUNS THE WORLD? Check out this column by University of California student Ella Griffith about “Intersectional Progress through Women in the Sierra Club.” Her annotated bibliography draws directly from a half-century of interviews in the Sierra Club Oral History Project!
AWARDS SEASON- BriGette McCoy, a Sierra Club Military Outdoors volunteer leader and the founder of Women Veterans Social Justice, won the 2020 Medal of Honor Societies Citizen Honors—Community Service Hero Award.
SHE’S KIND OF A BIG DEAL- Susana Reyes, Sierra Club's volunteer co-lead for the Clean Transportation for All Campaign, was just elected to become the vice president of the LA Board of Water and Power Commissioners -- helping oversee the nation's largest municipal utility.
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