Washington, DC -- The Forest Service today released a new forest management strategy for wildfire. The strategy has a strong emphasis on science and climate change, and calls for prescribed fire and other proven safety measures. In contrast, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is continuing his media tour on current wildfires, but focusing on inflammatory language, denying climate change’s role depending on the outlet he’s speaking to, and exploiting the ongoing fires striking communities across the West to push his and Donald Trump’s political agenda.
Asbury Park, NJ -- Today, the New Jersey Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Senator Bob Menendez’s campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate.
A federal judge today sided with environmental, landowner and Tribal plaintiffs in their challenge to the Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today the Department of the Interior released draft management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. The proposed plans leave most of Bears Ears without protections, and open significant portions of Grand Staircase to dirty fuel development. The management plans are moving forward for public comment despite current legal challenges to the Trump administration’s illegal actions to shrink the monuments.
Yesterday, a coalition of clean water advocates filed two emergency motions to stop the continued construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Today, the Department of the Interior received limited industry interest in yet another offshore drilling lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale offered up all available, unleased areas of the Gulf for oil and gas leasing and received bids on just 1 percent of the tracts up for auction. Today’s sale is the third in a series of similarly lackluster sales.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Bloomberg reported that internal emails from the Trump Administration showed experts at the Environmental Protection Agency told the Department of Transportation that rolling back the Obama era clean car standards would increase highway deaths.
Tomorrow: Watts Clean Energy and Air Committee to install MegaWatts Solar Project
Tomorrow, Wednesday August 15, the Watts Clean Energy and Air Committee in partnership with GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles will complete their 2-day installation of the MegaWatts solar project. This six kilowatt DC installation is the first phase of a larger project to bring solar power to the communities of South Los Angeles.
After a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today, Department of Energy Executive Rick Perry again stated his intention to force electricity customers and taxpayers to spend tens of billions of dollars to bailout uneconomic coal and nuclear plants that cannot compete with cleaner, cheaper competitors like solar and wind.
Minneapolis, MN-- This week, Sierra Club Senior Organizing Representative Karen Monahan described experiences of domestic abuse by Minnesota Attorney General Candidate and Congressman Keith Ellison. Karen is based in Minnesota and leads the Minnesota Environmental Justice Program for the Sierra Club.