March 15, 2019
Press Releases
March 15, 2019
Washington, DC-- Today, despite the House and Senate passage of a resolution to overturn Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, the President vetoed the bill. The move comes one day after the Senate passed the resolution and after several lawsuits, including the Sierra Club’s, challenged the constitutionality of the declaration. Several members of the Republican party in the House and Senate made clear their disagreement with Trump’s decision.
March 15, 2019
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Texas LNG fracked gas export terminal. Texas LNG is one of three fracked gas export terminals proposed for the Rio Grande Valley, the cumulative impacts of which could be devastating for local communities and industries like eco-tourism and shrimping that rely on a pristine coastline.
March 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of the Interior has finalized changes to the sage grouse management plans previously negotiated by a number of western states. The new plans will overturn these carefully-crafted conservation plans in exchange for rules that will allow the oil and gas industry to disrupt and destroy the habitat of the rapidly declining greater sage-grouse.
In response, Sierra Club Senior Campaign Representative Emily Lande released the following statement:
March 14, 2019
Vectren customers and community organizations came together to call on Vectren, a CenterPoint Company, to scrap their plans to construct an 850 MW gas plant and go back to the drawing board in their 2019 20-Year Energy Plan.
March 14, 2019
Washington, DC-- Today, in a 59-41 vote, the Senate passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s National Emergency declaration-- days after the House passed the companion measure. Sens. Udall (D-NM) and Collins (R-ME) introduced the bipartisan resolution aimed at stopping the president from taking money from critical government programs to construct more border wall.
March 14, 2019
Las Vegas, NV-- Today, the US Forest Service issued their final Environmental Assessment on Nevada’s Ruby Mountains-- denying the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) request to offer parcels for leasing in the landscape. The decision comes after after an outpour of public opposition and restricts BLM from offering the sale of parcels in the Ruby Mountains for oil and gas development.
In response, Christian Gerlach of the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign released the following statement:
March 14, 2019
Today, Representative Rob Bishop, the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, said the bold ideas in the Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis and inequity are “tantamount to genocide” to rural citizens. This comes as Washington Republicans, led by Donald Trump, continue their absurd and dangerous rhetoric on climate change and climate action.
March 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted 53-46 along party lines to confirm Neomi Rao to the D.C. Circuit Court. Rao has been widely-criticized by for her extreme and dangerous views on climate, sexual assault, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights. Rao is Trump’s 36th judge confirmed to appeals courts.
March 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Natural Resources Committee took the first steps to hold the Trump administration accountable for its illegal actions to shrink two national monuments and to open up millions of new acres of America’s public lands to dirty fuel development. The Committee heard testimony from Tribal leaders, scientists, conservationists, representatives of outdoor businesses and land management experts on the negative cultural, environmental, economic, paleontological, and archeological consequences of monument reduction.