Cindy Carr is a Deputy Press Secretary for the following Sierra Club campaigns and programs: Democracy Program; Clean Water, Toxic Chemicals, and Climate Resilience Program; International Climate and Policy Campaign.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced he is directing the Commerce Department to collect citizenship data from all federal agencies and departments. This is a defeat for the…
GENEVA -- Today, the World Trade Organization (WTO) sided with India in response to the country’s 2016 WTO complaint against U.S. buy-local policies in eight state-level clean energy programs. The…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, on the one-year anniversary of Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement, the Supreme Court ruled on cases involving the addition of a citizenship question to the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled to reject a challenge to a lower court ruling that found Virginia Republicans racially gerrymandered 11 districts across the state back in 2011.…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Senator Jeanne Shaheen announced she will be introducing the International Climate Accountability Act, the Senate companion bill to the Climate Action Now Act passed in the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Democrats are holding the first hearing on the recently introduced Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The PRO Act -- led by Representatives Scott, Wilson, Levin,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the UN released a new report that found that human activity is putting more than one million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction within decades, which in…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House of Representatives -- led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Frank Pallone and Select…
Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives -- led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Select Committee Chair Kathy Castor --will vote on the first piece of major climate legislation in nearly 10 years. The…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released its analysis on the economic consequences of Donald Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 trade deal. A review of the report found: The…