Today, former coal lobbyist and acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released an unlawfully weak carbon pollution policy that would gut the Clean Power Plan’s life-saving standards and do next to nothing to fight the climate crisis, continuing the agenda of disgraced former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. The Wheeler-Pruitt proposal pales in comparison to the previous Administration’s ambitious policy to work with states to dramatically reduce carbon pollution, promote economic and environmental justice, protect public health, and remove barriers to America’s clean energy economy.
GRAND CANYON, AZ – Emmy-nominated actress Yvonne Strahovski (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) stars in a new video out today calling for protection of the Grand Canyon from toxic uranium mining. The actress recently joined a Sierra Club outing to the Grand Canyon region with her husband, actor Tim Loden, to experience the wonder of Arizona’s immense national park and to see first-hand the need to permanently protect it.
On Monday, August 20, 2018, Friends of the Chicago River and the Sierra Club filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against the Trump International Hotel & Tower.
The Sierra Club announced today that it will be launching a five-figure digital advertising campaign against the Trump Administration’s efforts to force taxpayers and electricity customers to pay tens of billions of dollars to bail out uneconomic coal and nuclear plants. The advertisements will run on Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook, and will be geographically targeted to viewers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest who are likely to bear the most significant costs of a bailout.
Washington, DC -- Today, hours after Ryan Zinke was exposed for trying to sell off 1,600 illegally removed acres of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, the Department of the Interior reversed its decision after massive backlash.
Washington, DC-- Today, a coalition of groups representing workers, scientists and community members near chemical facilities won a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) delay of the Chemical Disaster Rule in the D.C. Circuit Court. The rule serves to protect both workers and fence-line communities in strengthening emergency preparedness and coordination with local first responders.
AUSTIN, TX – Instead of protecting public health and the environment, EPA has proposed a plan that will continue to allow air pollution to darken skies and threaten communities and national parks, community members and advocates say.
Washington, DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is once again struggling with the truth. Zinke has consistently stated that he would not sell of public lands -- including at his confirmation hearing. However, that appears to be exactly what he’s doing.
DTE Energy held the second (of two) open houses for its integrated resource plan (IRP), a document which outlines the utility’s future plans and will have significant impacts on customers. A group of twenty ratepayers, concerned citizens, and stakeholders gathered to deliver comments from their members which expressed concerns about the engagement process.
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction today on the Trump Administration's delay of the Clean Water Rule. The decision means the Clean Water Rule is once again the law of the land in 26 states where district court judges have not stayed the rule’s clean water protections.