November 19, 2021
Today, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the formation of a departmental task force to review and replace racist and derogatory place names among the country’s geographic features.
Press Releases
November 19, 2021
Yesterday, Sierra Club, Shrimpers and Fishermen of the RGV, and Save RGV from LNG filed a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers for reissuing a Clean Water Act section 404 “dredge and fill” permit for the Rio Grande LNG export terminal and the associated Rio Bravo Pipeline proposed for the Port of Brownsville. The groups argue that the permit falls short of legal requirements to avoid and compensate for impacts to wetlands, as required under section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
November 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released its annual automotive trends report, which found that automakers need to do more to deliver real world emissions reductions.
November 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After months of negotiations, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed a social spending and climate plan, which includes the Build Back Better Act’s historic climate investments to make our homes and buildings safer, healthier, and more affordable. As the package heads to the Senate, a group of climate, building decarbonization and affordable housing advocates issued the following joint statement:
November 19, 2021
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- The February winter storm Uri killed hundreds of Texans. Now, state regulators at the Public Utility Commission (PUC) are following Governor Abbott and allowing the same fossil fuel companies and utilities that caused our suffering to determine the solutions for “fixing” the electric grid. State leaders must listen to everyday Texans and actually fix the electric grid - not to add more of the same old dirty fossil fuels that already left Texans in the cold.
18 de noviembre de 2021
El Sierra Club aplaude la aprobación por parte de los demócratas de la Cámara Baja de la transformadora Ley para Reconstruir Mejor o Build Back Better (BBB) del Presidente Biden, una legislación histórica que actúa finalmente sobre temas como el clima, el cuidado infantil, los empleos y la justicia, y nos impulsa hacia la meta presidencial de reducir la contaminación climática a la mitad para 2030.
November 18, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Sierra Club applauds House Democrats for passing President Biden’s transformational Build Back Better Act — historic legislation that takes greatly needed action on climate, childcare, jobs, and justice, and moves us toward President Biden’s goal of cutting U.S. climate pollution in half by 2030.
November 18, 2021
Today, the Senate confirmed Charles F. Sams III to serve as the nineteenth permanent director of the National Park Service. Sams will be the first Indigenous American to lead NPS in its history.
November 18, 2021
Today, the Biden administration kicked off the formal review process of a plan to fully restore environmental protections to Tongass National Forest in Alaska, reversing a Trump-era attack on the Tongass that would have put Alaska’s last vestiges of old-growth forest at risk of destructive logging and road-building. Biden’s plan will also extend new safeguards for the forest as well as dedicating $25 million in federal spending on local sustainable development in Alaska.
November 18, 2021
Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) ruled the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) contract costs Indiana and Michigan Power (I&M, an AEP subsidiary) sought to charge Michigan customers are likely to be disallowed in all future proceedings.