CHICAGO, IL -- Today, Rep. Randy Hultgren (IL-14) was added to the list of Congressional representatives the Sierra Club is working to oust as part of its “Fossil Fools 2018” campaign. Fossil Fools is an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign, launched by the Sierra Club Political Committee, targeting over a dozen incumbent Congressional Republicans and candidates for defeat.
Today in his speech at the “Shale Insight Convention” in Pittsburgh, while touting the 28 environmental rollbacks taken since Trump took office, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told fracking corporations that “Methane is valuable. It is your main product not a byproduct, or perhaps the Sierra Club does understand that and they're trying to do to you what they did to the coal industry.” Among other notable speakers was Andree Griffin, the Vice President Geology and Geophysics at Exxonmobil/XTO Energy.
DETROIT, MI - Today, The Michigan Sierra Club Independent Action PAC announced a new general election mail campaign in support of Democratic candidate Gretchen Whitmer’s campaign to be Governor of Michigan. The Michigan Sierra Club Independent Action PAC is sending two separate mailers to voters highlighting Whitmer’s strong stance on clean water, focusing on both her efforts to protect the Great Lakes, as well as ensuring that everyone in the state has access to clean drinking water.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, President Trump said that “Maybe he won't be so acting so long” in regards to Andrew Wheeler after complimenting his job performance. As acting EPA Administrator, from rollbacks of major clean air safeguards, to meeting with Big polluters, to misleading and inaccurate statements, Wheeler has moved to harm public health every three days.
Today, the Huffington Post reported that fossil fuel lobbyist and current EPA air boss Bill Wehrum was visiting with Hunton Andrews Kurth, the fossil fuel lobbying firm that previously employed him, just one month after starting at EPA.
Last week, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted to set a default of 100 percent renewable electricity when the county launches service through the Clean Power Alliance in 2019. Clean Power Alliance is a Southern California community choice energy provider that will procure cleaner power at lower costs than investor-owned utility Southern California Edison (SCE).
After hearing from nearly 1,000 Arizona parents and science supporters---as well as from local science teachers and other community leaders--the Arizona State Board of Education voted today to re-integrate accurate climate and evolutionary science into the state’s K-12 science standards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, on twitter, Donald Trump claimed that the United States has the “cleanest air in the world - BY FAR!” using a World Health Organization map of particulate pollution. However, just last week, Trump’s EPA disbanded the EPA science panel that reviews particulate pollution, and Trump has gutted several clean air standards that protect from particulate matter pollution such as the clean car standards, Clean Power Plan, and glider truck rule. These rollbacks stand to hurt Trump’s voter base the most.
Pittsburgh, PA -- Late Friday, at the request of a coalition of clean water advocates including the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a third permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have in order to build through waterways in Wetzel and Harrison Counties in West Virginia.
MIAMI, FLORIDA: The Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of Mary Barzee Flores for Congress in Florida’s 25th district.
"We are pleased to announce today that the Sierra Club officially endorses Mary Barzee Flores
for election," said David Harbeitner, Sierra Fla. Political Chairman. "We are confident that she will continue work to protect Florida families’ health, air and water, and build a clean energy economy that works for Floridians.”