June 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Patrick Wyrick to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Press Releases
June 13, 2018
Today, the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York and District of Maryland handed down separate decisions holding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt accountable for reducing dangerous smog pollution that travels across state lines and impedes downwind states’ ability to meet health-based national air quality standards.
June 13, 2018
Given all of today’s new Scott Pruitt scandals (recapped below) it’s more important than ever that the White House and Sarah Huckabee Sanders answer the following questions:
June 13, 2018
Today, Consumers Energy CEO Patti Poppe announced the retirement by 2023 of the company’s Karn coal-burning power plant, which emits nearly 3 million tons of carbon pollution per year. Consumers is slated to submit its Integrated Resource Plan, which will include the Karn retirement, to the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) at the end of the week. According to Consumers’ press release issued today, that IRP will propose adding 5,000 MWs of solar in the 2020s, along with increased wind, battery storage, and efficiency.
June 12, 2018
Salt Lake City, UT - Today, the Bureau of Land Management sold off over 15,000 acres of public land in Utah and Idaho to dirty fuels interests. Included in the sale were two parcels totaling over 3,000 acres within ten miles of Capitol Reef National Park, which sold for the minimum bid of $2 an acre.
June 11, 2018
San Juan, Puerto Rico, -- Sierra Club de Puerto Rico issued a letter correcting some misleading statements made by new PREPA CEO Mr. Walter M. Higgins on the cost of clean energy.
June 11, 2018
A new letter to Scott Pruitt from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, finds that new policies implemented at the EPA to process FOIA requests are delaying the release of information on Pruitt’s activities and behavior at the EPA.
June 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court narrowly ruled 5-4 in the Husted v. APRI case, which will uphold the Ohio’s aggressive voter roll purges of people who vote infrequently. Ohio has purged more than 2 million voters in the past seven years, which is more than any other state in the nation. Voter purges disproportionately affect communities of color, veterans, low-income communities, young people, and disabled and elderly people. Today’s decision opens up the possibility of other states to follow Ohio’s lead in disenfranchising eligible Americans from voting.
June 9, 2018
QUEBEC, CANADA -- Today, the annual G-7 summit concluded with a G-6 communiqué that excludes the U.S. after Trump decided to remove the U.S. at the last minute. Earlier in the day, Trump notably excluded the U.S. from the G-6 commitment to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Donald Trump continues to isolate the U.S. on a number of issues, including trade and the need to address the climate crisis.
June 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to attend the March for the Ocean. In Washington DC, and around the country, the March for the Ocean Campaign is mounting mass marches, flotillas and rallies, calling for a stop to offshore drilling that threatens our ocean and coastlines and action to protect coastal communities, protect the ocean, and secure clean water for all.