September 4, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of the Interior to consider removing or reducing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican wolves.
Press Releases
September 4, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Bureau of Land Management proposed a new process that would allow some oil and gas development in the Western Arctic to move forward without additional, project-specific environmental reviews. The proposal would establish pre-defined criteria for certain drilling-related activities near existing oil and gas infrastructure, potentially accelerating new fossil fuel development across a region that provides critical habitat for caribou, migratory birds, and other wildlife and is already experiencing the severe impacts of climate change.
September 4, 2026
Donaldsonville, LA - Hyundai Steel is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony today for its proposed steel facility in Donaldsonville, neglecting the fact the company is still lacking an approved air permit and amidst serious questions about the facility’s location in Cancer Alley, pollution levels, local water supply impacts, and jobs.
September 3, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that the Trump administration plans to break ground within two weeks on Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, between Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The administration is preparing to start this project even though it has yet to receive final approval from federal planners.
September 3, 2026
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - Today, Sierra Club largely supported a new proposal from the nation’s largest grid operator, PJM, to hold Big Tech’s artificial intelligence data centers accountable for their own power generation and electricity costs, but asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to make four modifications that will ensure that the filing lives up to its promise.
September 3, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In honor of the National Park Service’s (NPS) 110th anniversary, Loren Blackford, the Executive Director of Sierra Club, wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Trump administration has abandoned a long-standing, bipartisan record of supporting NPS and its mission to in
September 3, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Today, the American Clean Power Association released a report that shows that clean energy deployment hit a record high in the first half of 2026. There is now enough clean energy in the United States to power 83 million homes with affordable and renewable energy.
September 3, 2026
Los Angeles – Yesterday, environmental groups joined an ongoing lawsuit brought by Communities for a Better Environment and Los Angeles Waterkeeper over the City of Los Angeles’s failure to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in approving the retrofit of the Scattergood Gas Plant to keep the plant running past its expected closure date by burning a mix of hydrogen and methane.
September 3, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, a federal judge granted California a preliminary injunction blocking EPA’s actions targeting four Clean Air Act preemption waivers previously granted to California.
September 2, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Conservation groups today challenged Trump’s July 2026 unlawful decimation of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Southern Utah. The groups filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking to reactivate litigation against Trump’s 2017 monument rollbacks and challenge both sets of illegal proclamations together.