Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, and one of the survivors who have accused him of sexual assault, Dr Christine Blasey Ford, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on whether Kavanaugh deserves a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Natural Resources Committee today passed a suite of bills undermining the Endangered Species Act. The action is the latest in a string of anti-wildlife actions by the committee this week.
In a notice set to appear in the Federal Register tomorrow, Ryan Zinke’s Department of the Interior will roll back offshore drilling safeguards issued under the Obama administration in response to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Long Beach, NY — The New York State Energy Research and Development (NYSERDA) hosted a public hearing on Wednesday to provide the latest updates on the state's plan for offshore wind development for Long Beach. The Sierra Club, labor unions, allied groups, and local residents attended the hearings and voiced their support for strong environmental protections, community benefits, and labor standards in New York’s increasing investment in offshore wind.
Environmental and tribal parties to the Line 3 pipeline permitting case filed requests today urging the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to reconsider their approval of the Line 3 pipeline.
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Kamala Harris introduced the Outdoors for All Act, which is the Senate version of the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership bill introduced last year by Representative Nanette Diaz Barragan (CA-44) and Representative Mike Turner (OH-10). Outdoors for All would create a dedicated funding source for the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP), which was established by Congress in 2014 and provides competitive grants to communities that lack outdoor recreation spaces to build parks and outdoor recreation facilities.
Dearborn, MI -- Today, citizens from across Michigan voiced their opposition to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s and NHSTA’s Acting Administrator King proposed rollback of the clean car standards at a public hearing. Hundreds of Michiganders attended, including former EPA and auto industry employees, speaking out strongly in support of the standards.
DEARBORN, MI -- Shortly before the start of today’s federal public hearing on a proposed rollback of the clean car standards, Sierra Club and Public Citizen delivered a wake-up call to Ford – literally – that working with the Trump administration to put the standards in reverse is unacceptable.
With an installation of several dozen vintage-style alarm clocks, the groups sounded the alarm that it is past time for Ford to stand with American families and dump the Trump rollback.
TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Today, the national Sierra Club Political Committee launched “Fossil Fools 2018”, the beginning of an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign targeting 10 Congressional Republican candidates, including Governor Rick Scott, for defeat.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a stay of the National Forest Service decisions allowing Atlantic Coast Pipeline construction.