Contact: Adam Beitman, adam.beitman@sierraclub.org or 202-670-5585
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has passed a 3-Bill Minibus package that includes the FY19 Interior-Environment appropriations bill. Unlike the bill in the House of Representatives, in which House Republican leadership included new anti-environmental poison pill policy riders alongside budget cuts, the Senate bill emerged in a much stronger and healthier position. Senators have united to fund protections for our children’s health and the great American outdoors, rejecting the severe cuts and poison policy riders Trump and House Republican leadership keeps pushing for.
In Response Sierra Club Associate Legislative Director Kirin Kennedy Released the Following Statement:
“The Sierra Club applauds the Senate for passing a bipartisan spending bill that funds the programs which conserve our nation’s environment, protects kids health and is free of any new poison pill riders. Unlike the legislation advanced by House Republican leadership, who used the appropriations process to auction off our kids’ health to corporate polluters while stuffing the bill with toxic riders, cooler heads prevailed in the Senate. Everyone in this country is counting on the Senate to prevail in conference negotiations against the anti-environmental policies advocated by House Republican leadership and Donald Trump.”
About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3 million members and supporters. In addition to helping people from all backgrounds explore nature and our outdoor heritage, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.