WASHINGTON D.C.-- Today, climate change denying, fossil fuel ally EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt testified before Senate Appropriations Committee to review the FY2018 budget cuts targeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its core programs.
In response, Melinda Pierce, Sierra Club’s Legislative Director, released the following statement:
NEW YORK CITY-- The nine Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states hosted the next in a series of stakeholder meetings today in their 2016-2017 RGGI program review to establish limits on carbon pollution emissions from the region’s electric sector between 2020 and 2030. During today’s meeting state officials reviewed potential policy scenarios to be considered in the program review, with the hopes of deciding on a scenario in the coming months.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, announced that he will be repealing the 2015 Clean Water Rule that provided vital clean water protections against dangerous pollution contaminating America’s waterways and drinking water supplies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House’s Natural Resources Committee strengthened and then passed the RECLAIM Act out of committee - an important step toward the bill’s passage through Congress. The RECLAIM Act commits $1 billion to economic development and diversification projects that clean up abandoned coal mines, while also prioritizing public input and community participation on which projects are chosen and how they are run.
Harrisburg, PA--The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed SB 624 today, which creates an exemption to an 80 year old law that protects streams and water supplies. The bill would allow mining companies to predictably damage or pollute streams based on a promise to clean them up later, instead of preventing the damage in the first place.
Las Vegas, NV –Secretary Ryan Zinke is making a visit to the Silver State. This visit comes during a review of national monuments ordered President Trump through an Executive Order given on April 26, 2017. President Trump issued an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review national monuments designated since 1996 to determine which could be repealed or reduced.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors approved a historic resolution that establishes support from the nation’s mayors for the goal of moving to 100 percent clean and renewable energy in cities nationwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ahead of next week’s vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Green Latinos, Green For All, Safe Climate Campaign, Environmental Working Group, Endangered Species Coalition, Earthworks, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Oil Change International, The Climate Reality Project, Clean Water Action, Climate Vote Hawks, and 350.org sent a
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Today, the Sierra Club released a new analysis that found that transitioning all 1,400+ U.S. Conference of Mayors member-cities to 100 percent clean and renewable electricity will significantly reduce electric sector carbon pollution nationwide and help the United States towards meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.
WASHINGTON, DC.-- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone region from the Endangered Species List. The decision comes despite serious concerns in the scientific community about a declining, isolated population with diminishing food resources and record-high mortalities, as well as strong opposition from an unprecedented number of Tribal Nations. The Trump administration turned a deaf ear to repeated calls for consultation from dozens of Tribal Nations.