November 27, 2018
Yesterday in an interview with the Washington Post, Donald Trump doubled down on his climate denial, dismissing the National Climate Assessment recently released by his own government and denying man-made climate change.
Press Releases
November 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report, detailing how the world’s countries are not doing enough to curb carbon emissions. According to the report, global emissions continued to rise in 2017, and it is unlikely that they will peak by 2020, despite the critical need to reduce emissions in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius.
November 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Hill reported that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke dismissed the recently released multi-agency National Climate Assessment that details the catastrophic impacts of climate change on our economy, health, and way of life. Zinke accused the assessment’s authors of using only worst-case scenarios, despite confirmation from one of the authors of the assessment that “it considers ALL scenarios, from those where we go carbon negative before end of century to those where carbon emissions continue to rise.”
November 27, 2018
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee reported out the nomination of coal bailout architect Bernard McNamee for the technology neutral Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
November 27, 2018
WASHINGTON-- The recently released National Climate Assessment shows that swift action is critical to protecting communities from the heavy financial and environmental costs of climate change. However, with all the warnings in plain sight, energy utilities across the country still plan to build out a slew of new fossil fuel projects across the United States.
November 26, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Associated Press reported that Donald Trump doesn’t believe the multi-agency assessment his own government released that details the catastrophic impacts of climate change on our economy, health, and way of life. In 2017, Trump’s golf course in Scotland was granted permits to build two sea walls to protect the course from rising sea levels due to climate disruption.
November 23, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the United States Global Change Research Program released the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II on the effects climate change is and will have on the United States if immediate action is not taken. This july heat records were shattered all over the world, and this year the U.S. saw several devastatingly strong and deadly hurricanes and wildfires, taking the lives of hundreds and upending the lives of thousands.
November 22, 2018
Jackson, WY-- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has diagnosed the first case of Chronic Wasting Disease in mule deer in Grand Teton National Park. The finding reveals the increasing spread of the wildlife killer in the state. Chronic Wasting Disease always proves fatal and could significantly affect deer and elk herds and the balance of wildlife in the world renowned Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
November 20, 2018
Pittsburgh, PA -- Yesterday, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended an essential permit for the fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline, meaning its developers cannot do any work on stream or wetland crossings along its entire 600-mile route. Known as the Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP 12), the permit authorized developers to build gas pipeline projects through streams, rivers, and waterways.
November 20, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue joined embattled Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke in discussing the Farm Bill and making claims about funding to combat wildfires. These remarks come on the heels of Ryan Zinke pushing dangerous and false rhetoric on California’s wildfires.
In response, Sierra Club Associate Legislative Director Kirin Kennedy released the following statement: