March 26, 2018
Yesterday, the Department of the Interior announced that it will seek to identify more ways to speed up permitting for offshore oil and gas drilling off America's coasts.
Press Releases
March 26, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, CNN is reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has said, "diversity isn't important," "I don't care about diversity," and "I don't really think that's important anymore." These reports come shortly after Zinke made a racially insensitive remark -- and doubled down on it -- to Congre
March 26, 2018
The Sierra Club filed its opening brief in an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court. It's the next step in the effort to ensure a deal for fracked gas shipping capacity is reviewed for conflicts of interest.
March 26, 2018
Charleston, WEST VIRGINIA -Lack of federal funding has terminated a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine study on the health effects of mountaintop coal removal in Central Appalachia. Trump has been slowly and quietly dismantling the study since last fall, when the Department of Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) halted the work due to an agency wide review of grants and agreements over $100,000.
March 26, 2018
On Friday, a federal court found a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plan allowing coal mining and oil and gas drilling on over 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights in Montana and Wyoming to be unlawful.
March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. and South Korea reached an agreement “in principle” on the six-year-old U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) in which, among other things, South Korea has agreed to double the number of higher-polluting U.S. vehicles that may be imported each year without having to meet Korea’s stricter auto emissions standards. South Korea also agreed to consider the weaker U.S. standards when developing their 2021-2025 auto emissions standards.
March 26, 2018
As Duke Energy continues its push to raise customers’ bills to pay for its coal ash cleanup and to pad its bottom line, Sierra Club has launched a two-week digital ad buy in Raleigh and Charlotte to shine a light on the utility’s greed.
March 23, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its 3 million members and supporters to attend March for Our Lives rallies across the country.
March 23, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, Bloomberg is reporting that Scott Pruitt has sided with Ford and the Auto Alliance in undoing the clean car standards despite the fact that they could limit global warming pollution by 6 billion tons, save consumers $1.7 trillion dollars in fuel costs, and reduce oil consumption by up to 4 million barrels every day.
March 23, 2018
SEDRO WOOLLEY, WA -- Upwards of 65 people gathered today as Secretary Zinke visited Washington. With signs opposing Zinke’s monuments mistakes, offshore drilling proposals, park fee hikes, oil and gas leases, and his general disregard for our public lands, the message of opposition to the Secretary’s sell out was clear.
In response Alex Craven, Washington Organizer for Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign issued the following statement.