HOLLISTER, CA -- The Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society (collectively the “Environmental Groups”), the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), and Panoche Valley Solar LLC (a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Development, Inc.), have entered into a settlement agreement concerning the size and location of a solar project currently under development in California’s Panoche Valley. The agreement will help advance renewable energy in the state, create local jobs, and protect the environment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paved the way today for the 600-mile 42-inch fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline to proceed when it issued the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). A joint project of utility giants Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would move fracked gas from West Virginia into Virginia and North Carolina.
Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, met with agriculture partners in Arkansas to promote the Trump Administration’s environmental agenda, including rollbacks to the federal Clean Water Act – a bedrock protection against dangerous pollution contaminating America’s waterways and drinking water supplies.
Glen Hooks, Director of the Arkansas Sierra Club, issued the following statement in response:
Los Angeles, CA -- Today, the Sierra Club launched an ad campaign urging the Los Angeles Metro to make the switch to zero emission buses. On July 27, the Metro board is expected to formally vote on a transition to a 100 percent zero-emissions electric bus fleet by 2030. The two videos showcase the clean air, climate and jobs benefits through the lense of two current zero emission bus workers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on whether to confirm Jeffrey Bossert Clark, an attorney who represented BP during the litigation following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD). If confirmed, Clark would lead DOJ's enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House passed HR218 or the King Cove Road Land Exchange Act— a bill that authorizes the building of a road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
In response, Sierra Club’s public lands policy director Athan Manuel released the following statement:
“King Cove residents deserve quality, emergency access to healthcare.
Washington, DC -- The Sierra Club has launched an ad campaign opposing Donald Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt’s attempts to rollback fuel efficiency standards.
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ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. -- Citing threats to North Carolina’s fragile coastal environment and coastal economy, Gov. Roy Cooper today announced his firm opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to open the mid-Atlantic to offshore drilling.
"There is a threat looming over this coastline that we love and the prosperity it brings, and that's the threat of offshore drilling," Cooper said. "As governor, I'm here to speak out and to take action against it. I can sum it up in four words: Not off our coast."
Washington, DC -- This afternoon, the House of Representatives voted to pass two bills, pushed by Congressional Republicans, that would fast-track approval of cross-border and interstate oil and gas pipelines.