September 5, 2017
Donald Trump’s tax speech showed that he continues to deceive the public about his own environmental policies when he claimed, in contrast to everything he has done in office, that he wants “crystal clean air and water.”
Press Releases
September 5, 2017
A new study released today by the City of Denver Department of Environmental Health shows that transitioning Denver to 100 percent clean and renewable energy is vital for the city to achieve its carbon pollution reduction goals.
September 5, 2017
Late yesterday, the Sierra Club filed objections to the United States Forest Service's proposal to facilitate the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) by weakening crucial provisions of the forest plan for the Monongahela and George Washington National Forests in West Virginia and Virginia.
September 5, 2017
Later today, Donald Trump will be giving what has been framed as a tax reform speech at an oil refinery in Mandan, ND, where he’ll be joined by Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry, and Ryan Zinke. But just who is he hoping to reform taxes for? Trump has consistently called for lowering the statutory corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% to “help grow businesses-- a massive tax cuts for industries like the one hosting his speech today. Still, Trump neglects to note the billions in subsidies offered to the fossil fuel industry already.
September 5, 2017
Sierra Club Michigan Chapter today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain current fuel economy standards that protect our air, land and Great Lakes. Under the Trump Administration, the EPA is reconsidering previously finalized clean cars standards that reduce tailpipe carbon pollution, improve fuel economy, and combat climate change.
September 5, 2017
Today, Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a hearing for their reconsideration of light duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards for model years 2021-2025.
September 4, 2017
Today in the midst of a national emergency along the Gulf Coast, Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, is set to announce the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, leaving it up to congress to protect the more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants in the program.
September 3, 2017
Today, on Labor Day, the Sierra Club is joining SEIU and the Fight for $15 movement at major actions across the country to highlight the need for good union jobs. The Sierra Club is proud to support these workers in their fight for a living wage on a living planet.
August 31, 2017
The plan to build a new fracked gas plant at the Asheville coal plant site at Lake Julian has been postponed by at least four years, according to a Duke Energy Progress filing today with state regulators.
August 31, 2017
Even in the midst of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and a national emergency on the Gulf Coast that has hit communities of color and the immigrant community especially hard, House Republicans are looking to cut a billion dollars of disaster relief money in order to fund an ineffectual and disastrous border wall. At the same time, the Trump Administration announced plans yesterday to select vendors for concrete prototypes of the wall.