NEW: The Trump administration is currently carrying out miles of new border wall construction-- a result of the President’s national emergency declaration that allowed him to raid military funds for border wall construction. The Sierra Club is in an ongoing legal challenge of this.
Donald Trump firmó hoy el Acuerdo Comercial Estados Unidos-México-Canadá (UMSCA), la revisión del conocido como NAFTA, pese a las graves reservas sobre el pacto por parte de líderes parlamentarios.
Today, a group of concerned Ohio River Valley residents held a meeting with staff from the Ohio EPA and Governor DeWine’s office to raise concerns about the massive proposed petrochemical facility known as an “ethane cracker” in Belmont County.
Today, 36 House Democrats sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) expressing serious concerns over the commission’s recent decision to institute a Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR), which forces new renewable energy generation, like wind and solar, out of the PJM capacity market.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump signed his NAFTA 2.0 trade deal, despite serious, high-profile concerns over the proposal from leading members of Congress.
WASHINGTON— A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect northern long-eared bats as threatened rather than endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
At the second Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) public comment session on Tucson Electric Power’s (TEP) rate increase request, about 50 people submitted comments against the hike. The rate increase would tap into customers’ pockets to pay for the utility’s over reliance on uneconomical fossil fuels. Opponents of the rate increase include the City of Tucson, Sierra Club, Vote Solar, Western Resource Advocates, and Southwest Energy Efficiency Project.
San Antonio, TX -- Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Jessica Cisneros for Congress in Texas’ 28th Congressional District. This is the Sierra Club’s first endorsement of a challenger to a sitting Democratic member of Congress in a number of cycles.
Washington, DC-- Tomorrow (1/29), the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on several wildlife conservation bills-- including the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need of Protection Act (PAW and FIN Act) that will undo the Trump administration’s recent rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act.
The Sierra Club released a report today, which found that clean energy companies have successfully developed numerous projects in West Virginia and that small businesses, school districts, and residents could save millions with additional clean energy projects if the Mountain State’s policies improved.