Missoula, MT-- Tomorrow, Governor Bullock’s Grizzly Bear Advisory Council will meet to “address challenges and to help set a long term vision for grizzly bear management and conservation in Montana.” The topic for the Dec. 4th meeting is conflict prevention, and it is the third time the council has met since October. Montanans have made significant strides in recent decades to prevent conflicts between bears and people.
Pinedale, WY-- Today, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) will host its first public meeting to announce recommendations of the state’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Working Group. The Working Group was formed earlier this year to revise Wyoming’s CWD management plan. CWD is the always-fatal wildlife disease that is spreading rapidly across the state and severely threatening Wyoming’s renowned deer, elk and moose populations.
Geneva, Switzerland-- Today, during the third convention on the Minamata Treaty on Mercury, the Zero Mercury Working Group, The Beautywell Project and Sierra Club released results from their tests of mercury levels in Amazon and eBay skin-lightening products-- revealing that 60% of the tested products contained illegal levels of the chemical. The groups assessed 158 products from 12 countries. They found that of those, 60% all exceeded the one part per million limit adopted as U.S law, and the soon-to-be-implemented global limit for the 128 countries who signed the UN Minamata treaty on Mercury.
La ONU publicó hoy su informe anual sobre la “brecha de emisiones”, el cual revela que las temperaturas globales aumentarán casi 4 grados centígrados para final de siglo.
Augusta, ME--Yesterday, Indigenous community members and allies delivered a letter to Governor Mills asking her to withdraw support for the controversial Central Maine Transmission (CMP) corridor that will import Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts. The letter debunks the myth that large-scale hydro is a renewable resource and that instead, it destroys our rivers and ecosystems.
Washington, DC -- Today, the UN released its annual “emissions gap” report, which detailed that global temperatures are set to rise by nearly 4 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. If governments fail to act, scientists note this could result in global catastrophic effects, including coastal cities being inundated with flooding, unbearable severe heat, and coral reefs potentially dissolving.
DETROIT -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latinx communities in Michigan. The Sierra Club will run digital ads directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote. The campaign will also run in Missouri, Georgia, and Florida.
TALLAHASSEE -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latino and Latina communities, in Florida. An estimated 300,000 new residents are moving to Florida annually, and the state population is expected to reach 22 million by 2022.
ATLANTA -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latinx communities in Georgia. The Sierra Club will run digital ads directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote. The campaign will also run in Michigan, Missouri, and Florida.
ST. LOUIS -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latinx communities in Missouri. The Sierra Club will run digital ads directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote. The campaign will also run in Michigan, Georgia, and Florida.