Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its opinion following its April order granting Sierra Club and partners’ petition for review of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) attempt to indefinitely delay a planned increase in civil penalties on automakers whose vehicles fail to meet fuel economy standards required under the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) program.
Yesterday, Congressman John Sarbanes and 161 Democratic co-sponsors introduced the By The People Resolution, which aims to reform our democracy by combating corruption and promoting pro-voter solutions.
Today, Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) announced it is suspending construction activities in Southwest Virginia. The halt comes after citizen advocacy groups reported dozens of suspected water quality violations to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
LANSING, MI -- Today Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law two bills which allow industry lobbyists to rewrite the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) rulebook and overrule MDEQ permit decisions. Now signed into law, Senate Bills 652-653 will ultimately lead to more environmental and public health disasters like the Flint water crisis, toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie, Nestle’s massive Great Lakes water withdrawal, and toxic air pollution hot spots in Detroit. Over two thousand Sierra Club activists contacted Gov.
LANSING, MI -- Today Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law two bills which will allow industry lobbyists to rewrite the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) rulebook and overrule MDEQ permit decisions. Now signed into law, Senate Bills 652-653 will ultimately lead to more environmental and public health disasters like the Flint water crisis, toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie, Nestle’s massive Great Lakes water withdrawal, and toxic air pollution hot spots in Detroit. Over two thousand Sierra Club activists contacted Gov.
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places announced its decision to restore the site of the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain labor conflict to the National Register, protecting the site from mountaintop removal by the coal industry. This decision follows years of legal action brought by a coalition of environmental and historic preservation groups including Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Friends of Blair Mountain, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the West Virginia Labor History Association, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
San Francisco, CA -- Today, Bayview Hunters Point residents were joined by environmental justice, social justice and environmental activists in telling US EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt he is not welcome in San Francisco as he attempted to sneak in without publicity to US EPA’s Region IX office.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner (FERC) Robert Powelson announced his resignation to become CEO of the National Association of Water Companies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate today passed a bi-partisan Farm Bill. Despite attempts to attach unpopular anti-environmental riders, the final bill remains focused on widely-supported food and farm policies.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved the Certificate of Need for Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline, in spite of ample evidence and expert testimony that the pipeline is not needed.