The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major report on the effects climate change is and will have on the world if immediate action is not taken. The report - based on three years of scientific research - projects that catastrophic effects of the climate crisis such as food shortages and droughts could occur by 2040, within the lifetime of much of the world’s population.
Washington, DC -- Today, all but one Senate Republican -- along with one Senate Democrat -- voted to confirm Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. Multiple women have shared their stories of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, and he has been caught lying numerous times while under oath.
For weeks now, millions of Americans have called or visited their senators’ offices, and thousands more have taken to the streets, demanding Brett Kavanaugh be rejected.
Today, at the request of a coalition of clean water advocates including the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have in order to build through waterways in Virginia.
As Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke spoke at an event at the Charlestown Navy Yard this morning, a crowd of protesters was there to call on him to protect our public lands from dirty fossil fuel development.
Washington, DC -- Today, Senate Republicans voted to move Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, forward. Multiple women have shared their stories of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, and he has been caught lying numerous times while under oath. For more than 200 years, the Senate have honored a 60 vote margin for Supreme Court nominees to be moved forward. Kavanaugh only received 51.
Today the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB) modified the widely criticized proposal by Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration to bail out Dynegy-Vistra coal power plants in Illinois. Dynegy and Vistra Energy recently merged in a deal worth $20 billion, yet still claimed financial hardship and urged state officials to ease clean-air rules. The proposed change would have led to worse air quality and detrimental health impacts in communities already among the hardest hit by pollution.
SPOKANE, WA -- Today, Cathy McMorris Rodgers was added onto 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 last week by the Sierra Club Political Committee, targeting nearly a dozen incumbent Congressional Republicans and candidates for defeat.
Donald Trump formally nominated his initial coal bailout architect, Bernard McNamee, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today in order to fill the seat of resigning commissioner Robert Powelson.
FORT COLLINS, CO – On Tuesday, October 2, the Fort Collins City Council voted 6-1 to approve a resolution committing the community to shift away from fossil fuels and transition to 100 percent clean, renewable electricity by 2030. The resolution can be found here.
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).