The Tenth Circuit Court just secured a major victory for those that care about protecting public lands and our climate. Today’s decision sheds new light on the destructive consequences of leasing our most precious lands to corporate polluters who value their balance sheets more than public health. This decision marks a major step in our efforts to hold coal, oil, and gas companies accountable for their reckless contributions to climate change and to force the doting Trump Administration to take our environmental laws seriously.
RALEIGH, NC -- Late yesterday, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) requested additional information from Duke Energy and Dominion Energy in order to conduct a more thorough examination of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s (ACP) effects on the state’s water quality.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While visiting Florida, in response to a question about whether the severity of recent Hurricanes had changed Donald Trump’s thoughts at all about climate change, Trump responded, “we’ve had bigger storms.”
Previously, over the past few weeks, Trump has referred to both Hurricane Irma and Harvey in “epic” terms and noted their historic nature and unprecedented character.
Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt today continued their capitulation to the coal industry at the expense of the health of our families. Pruitt’s decision to target the new clean water protections is another heartless ploy by the Trump administration scrap progress on protecting our families from toxic coal ash.
A coalition of national conservation groups including Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club and Animal Legal Defense Fund filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today challenging border wall construction activities that threaten wildlife and public lands in San Diego and Imperial Valley, California.
Houston, TX -- Today, the Houston Chronicle reported that Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt is set to close EPA’s Region 6 Environmental Services Laboratory. The majority of the lab’s work has been concentrated on the dozens of Superfund sites in the region, 13 of which flooded and released toxic chemicals when Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston. it has doubled as a staging area for EPA staff.
St. Petersburg, FL -- Communities spanning the entire state of Florida, in Puerto Rico, in Georgia and the Carolinas, and throughout the Caribbean have suffered through Hurricane Irma just weeks after unprecedented devastation throughout the Gulf from Hurricane Harvey.
EIA is finally recognizing coal use has peaked globally, but it still misses the tectonic coal to clean energy revolution happening here in the United States. Later this year we will celebrate a major milestone when half the US coal fleet that was operating in 2009 will have retired or be announced to retire.
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an omnibus bill to address funding the government through next year. Among the many ways it puts American families and their well-being at risk, the deal slashes funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior.
In response, Sierra Club’s Associate Legislative Director Kirin Kennedy released the following statement:
Today as a part of National Drive Electric Week, Mayors Joseph Petty of Worcester, Donna Holaday of Newburyport, William Martin of Greenfield, and David Narkewicz of Northampton and the Sierra Club sent a letter to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation signed by 15 other Mayors, including Boston’s Mayor Walsh, urging the DOT to commit to 100% zero emission buses by 2030.