2 de octubre de 2020
Comunidades de todo el país aplauden una decisión de juez federal que requiere que la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) cumpla con la ley e investigue quejas de derechos civiles oportunamente.
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September 16, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As reported by POLITICO, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has postponed an internal speaker series on environmental injustices faced by people of color and low-income communities after Donald Trump issued a governmentwide memo on September 4th banning diversity and anti-discrimination training within federal agencies.
August 26, 2020
NORTH CAROLINA -- Yesterday, after years of incinerating PFAS waste, the federal government acknowledged the hazards and announced a technical challenge to design a safer way to destroy toxic fire fighting foam. The challenge will reward new technologies that can destroy at least 99 percent of the PFAS in fire fighting foam, despite EPA typically requiring even greater levels of breakdown for other highly toxic wastes. Due to PFAS chemicals’ intense toxicity and persistence, 99 percent destruction is a low bar and wastes would still contain far more PFAS than can be safely emitted into air or waterways.
August 13, 2020
Today, the Trump administration is expected to finalize two rules that eliminate common sense Clean Air Act safeguards against methane and other harmful pollution from the oil and gas industry.
July 31, 2020
AUSTIN, TX - Today, the Sierra Club learned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requiring the State of Texas to finally submit a plan to address the sulfur pollution from Vistra Energy’s Martin Lake Power Plant in Rusk County, Texas.
July 24, 2020
The House today passed the FY2021 Minibus 1. The bill increases funding for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency and includes provisions to protect and prioritize public health, while supporting environmental programs to address climate change,safeguard clean water and invest in green infrastructure. Also included are specific provisions for fighting racism, increasing environmental justice activities and funding research into the role of protecting wildlife and wild places to prevent future pandemics.
July 10, 2020
WASHINGTON D.C.-- The House Appropriations Committee today took up the FY2021 Interior and EPA spending bills. The bills increase funding for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency and include specific provisions for fighting racism, increasing environmental justice activities and funding research into the role of protecting wildlife and wild places to prevent future pandemics.
July 2, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Thursday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a Trump administration attempt to allow polluters to illegally sidestep clean air regulations -- and protected the public’s right to seek legal relief.
April 21, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Environmental Protection Agency today published a final rule in the federal register stripping Clean Water Act protections for more than half the nation’s wetlands and millions of miles of streams. The cuts put drinking water sources for millions of people in the U.S. at risk and jeopardize the ability to counter floods, droughts, toxic algal blooms, groundwater depletion and other worsening water issues driven by the climate crisis.
October 21, 2019
The Sierra Club submitted more than 23,900 comments from members and supporters opposing former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler’s illegal attempt to scrap Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
October 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today marks 47 years since the Clean Water Act was passed into law. Since then, water quality in the United States has improved remarkably. The number of healthy waterways has doubled, providing clean water for drinking, recreation and wildlife. Like other bedrock environmental safeguards, the Clean Water Act has come under attack recently as the Trump administration has sought to make it harder for states to protect local waterways.
September 24, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday evening, McClatchy reported that EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nicols threatening sanctions against California, including cuts in federal highway funding.