May 31, 2019
An administrative law judge is allowing Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to move forward with plans to burn fracked gas and more coal at their Tampa-area Big Bend plant.
May 24, 2019
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal court today issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from constructing the president’s border wall using funds illegally transferred from military accounts, including pension and pay funds, under counterdrug authorities. Construction using the illicit funds was scheduled to begin as early as tomorrow, May 25th.
May 17, 2019
Oakland, CA-- Today, after hearing arguments from declarentes from the Sierra Club, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC)’s over their preliminary injunction motion on their challenge of Trump’s emergency declaration lawsuit, a federal judge declined to make a decision on the injunction. The preliminary injunction is a part of the group’s challenge of the president’s national emergency and blocks the administration’s initial transfer of over a billion dollars from the Pentagon for border wall construction.
May 10, 2019
Washington, DC-- Today, the Trump administration announced they will steal $1.5 billion in Pentagon funds to construct 80 more miles of wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move brings the total transferred out of the Pentagon budget for border walls to $2.5 billion.
May 7, 2019
TEXAS - Today, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s failure to increase protections in numerous communities that have dangerous levels of ozone smog. The communities at issue include the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth areas; San Diego, Nevada, and Imperial counties, CA; the greater Chicago area; Phoenix, AZ; Baltimore, MD; Sheboygan, WI; the entire state of Connecticut; and the New York City area.
April 25, 2019
Washington, DC -- The Wall Street Journal reported today that the release of the Trump administration’s proposed offshore drilling plan has been delayed.
April 23, 2019
Environmental and landowner organizations today urged the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to maintain the prohibition on construction of the Keystone XL pipeline while federal agencies revise their flawed environmental review.
April 22, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Sierra Club filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) produce any records it has supporting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s assertion that “most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.”
April 22, 2019
Montana — Late Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration’s Interior Department illegally lifted the moratorium placed on new coal mining leases on public lands. Sierra Club challenged the Interior Department’s 2017 action along with Center for Biological Diversity, Citizens for Clean Energy, Defenders of Wildlife, EcoCheyene, Montana Environmental Information Center, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, and WildEarth Guardians -- all represented by Earthjustice.
April 17, 2019
San Juan County has withdrawn its legal support for the Trump administration’s actions to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, which are currently being challenged in court by Tribal Nations and conservation groups, including the Sierra Club. The action follows a decision by the San Juan County Commission to reverse its official stance on changes to Bears Ears National Monumen