WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Early this morning, Representative Elijah Cummings passed away. Cummings represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District since 1996 and most recently served as the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and as a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Conservation groups today blasted a U.S. Forest Service decision to authorize continued livestock grazing in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The forest encompasses the headwaters of the Green River, an area important for grizzly bear recovery and elk, deer and pronghorn migrations. The Service itself determined that the plan’s grazing is “likely to adversely affect” grizzly bears, which are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Nation’s Largest Grassroots Environmental Group Praises Peters’ Leadership in Protecting Michigan’s Environment
LANSING, MI: The Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of U.S. Senator Gary Peters in the 2020 Senate election in Michigan.
Seattle, WA-- Today, at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NWPCC)’s public hearing on their annual Fish and Wildlife Plan, over 80 advocates from multiple organizations testified-- calling out the Council’s inadequate plan to protect region’s struggling steelhead and Snake-Columbia salmon populations - along with the orca that rely on them -from extinction.
After the meeting, representatives from organizations in attendance released the following statements:
JACKSON, MS -- Sierra Club is asking the Mississippi Public Service Commission to turn down a request by Mississippi Power to charge customers for as much as $45 million in unnecessary equipment at Plant Victor Daniel, a coal-fired power plant in Jackson County. Plant Daniel no longer has any value for customers and costs much more to operate than reliable clean alternatives.
Late yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to halt construction activities along the entire 303-mile route of the project
ANNAPOLIS -- Yesterday, after months of pressure from Sierra Club and other climate action groups, Governor Larry Hogan’s administration released their much delayed plan to reduce Maryland’s greenhouse gas emissions. State law set the deadline for the draft plan to be formalized and released in 2018.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- During tonight’s Democratic Presidential Debate on CNN, no questions about the climate crisis were asked of the candidates.
The Trump administration today announced plans to gut long-standing protections against logging and road-building in the Tongass National Forest, a cherished old-growth temperate rainforest in Southeast Alaska and homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people. A coalition that includes Alaska Native people and Alaska-based and national organizations opposes the U.S. Forest Service plan, which comes weeks after revelations that President Trump exerted pressure to allow new clear-cuts in the Tongass.
Tonight, 12 Democrats will take the stage in Ohio, a state that, despite common misperception, is central to the clean energy transition happening across the country. When it comes to clean energy, Ohio:
Is ranked eighth in the nation with more than 112,000 clean energy jobs