Press Releases

August 3, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump Administration announced that it plans to deliver a written notice to the UN that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

August 4, 2017

SPRING HOPE, N.C. -- North Carolinians and the Sierra Club are organizing a canoe and kayak trip down the Tar River to show residents and media the ways in which Duke Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would negatively affect the state’s waterways. The pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through eight North Carolina Counties, crossing over 560 creeks, rivers, and wetlands before stopping in Robeson County.

August 3, 2017

 

Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said gas infrastructure was necessary to “live the life we want to live” in Pennsylvania. This comes just days after 61 spills were reported along the Mariner East 2 pipeline route and a Pennsylvania judge ordered drilling halted at 55 locations. Governor Wolf also stated that he personally spoke to the head of Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of the Mariner East 2 pipeline.

 

August 3, 2017

Lincoln, NE -- The Intertribal Coalition of Nebraska and the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma will come together in Lincoln on Tuesday to take a historic stand against the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The five sovereign nations in Nebraska will sign a Treaty opposing the pipeline and tar sands expansion.

August 2, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Thursday, August 3, 2017

 

Contact:  Trey Pollard trey.pollard@sierraclub.org

 

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Sierra Club Statement on Jim Justice Switching Back to the Republican Party


 

August 2, 2017

Washington, DC -- Today, the Senate voted to confirm Donald Trump’s nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Neil Chatterjee and Rob Powelson.

August 2, 2017

SPRING HOPE, N.C. -- North Carolinians and the Sierra Club are organizing a canoe and kayak trip down the Tar River to show residents and media the ways in which Duke Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would negatively affect the state’s waterways. The pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through eight North Carolina Counties, crossing over 560 creeks, rivers, and wetlands before stopping in Robeson County.

August 2, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Late yesterday, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, dropped his unlawful one-year delay of the implementation of 2015 smog pollution standard after numerous environmental groups (including Sierra Club), public health organizations, and attorneys general from across the United States sued to block the effort.

 

July 31, 2017

San Diego -- The Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver allowing the agency to ignore key health and environmental safeguards in their misguided efforts to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.

In response, Dan Millis of  the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter Borderlands Program  issued the following statement.

 

July 31, 2017

SEATTLE - Olympia mayor Cheryl Selby pledged her support for moving the city of Olympia to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2035.