April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted to approve Mike Pompeo’s nomination for Secretary of State.
Press Releases
April 25, 2018
The Bureau of Land Management in Montana deferred all 223 parcels subject to an oil and gas lease sale planned for June 12. The decision to postpone the lease sale results from a court decision last month finding the Miles City (Montana) and Buffalo (Wyoming) Field Office’s Resource Management Plans unlawfully overlooked climate impacts of coal mining and oil and gas drilling.
April 26, 2018
Today, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faces two House hearings -- without the White House’s assistance -- on his ethical and illegal actions. He can try his best to shift the blame, but these scandals all have one thing in common: Scott Pruitt. Below are just the highlights of the long list of Pruitt’s wrongdoings.
April 25, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC - Forty national civil rights, labor, conservation and environmental organizations representing millions of members and supporters across the United States have taken out a full page ads on Thursday, the day of EPA admi
April 25, 2018
Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP) hosted a public hearing today on its drafted update to the water pollution permit for the Cheswick coal-fired power plant. The plant has been polluting Pittsburgh’s air and water since 1970 and discharging wastewater into the Allegheny River and Little Deer Creek.
April 25, 2018
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued an order approving a settlement agreement reached by the Sierra Club, AEP, Commission Staff and other stakeholders last fall.
April 25, 2018
Washington, DC -- President Trump recently announced the end of protections for Liberians seeking asylum in the United States and granted stay by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
April 25, 2018
Today, in the White House Press Briefing, Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt still has a job and how his behavior is corresponds with Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” given his many ethical scandals
April 25, 2018
The House today is expected to take up the Salmon Extinction Act, HR 3144. The bill will roll back critical protections for endangered salmon, derail salmon recovery alternatives, and undermine bedrock environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act. Thirteen wild salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia and Snake River Basin are currently at risk of extinction, none of which have recovered under the inadequate plans the Salmon Extinction Act would continue.
April 25, 2018
A crowd of activists rallied today outside of a meeting of Bank of America’s shareholders and executives to call on the Charlotte-based bank to drop its financing of dirty and destructive fossil fuel projects.