Press Releases

May 16, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week the Sierra Club is launching a targeted ad campaign in nine states urging Senate Democrats to pass bold climate action that invests in communities struggling with rising prices, systemic injustice, and economic inequity.  This ad campaign continues the momentum of the movement-wide grassroots mobilization on Earth Day demanding that Congress address the interlocking crises of climate change, high energy costs, lack of access to care, and environmental injustice.

May 4, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If it’s a day ending in ‘y’, it’s another day that the overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans remain unserious about taking action to mitigate climate-fueled disasters. As scientific warnings pile up about the existential threat of climate change around the globe, senate Republicans continue to deny the reality of the climate crisis and refuse to take any meaningful action. 

April 20, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC -- This Earth Day, thousands of Sierra Club and coalition members and activists are taking to the streets and creating public art to call on President Biden and Congress to fulfill their commitments for large-scale investments to address the climate crisis, the unaffordability of basic goods and services, and rampant injustice.

March 15, 2022

*** Senior Sierra Club policy staff and leadership, along with grassroots volunteers, are available to discuss the urgent need for Congress to take meaningful action on climate, care, jobs, and justice. ***  Never has it been more crucial for Congress to pass a sweeping suite of investments in climate, care, jobs, and justice than now, as the country faces dramatically rising prices and energy insecurity.

February 28, 2022

*** Senior Sierra Club policy staff and leadership, along with grassroots volunteers, are available to discuss the urgent need for meaningful action on historic investments. *** 

January 31, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC -- As the Senate returns from recess, the Sierra Club is making it clear this is a make-or-break moment for taking on the climate, economic, and health threats that working families and communities of color face. The organization is calling for Congress to swiftly pass a bold suite of investments, building on the broad array of historic climate and social investments in the Build Back Better Act that already have agreed-upon support from Senate Democrats. 

January 12, 2022

*** Senior Sierra Club policy staff and leadership, along with grassroots volunteers, are available to discuss the urgent need for Congress to take meaningful action on climate, jobs and justice. ***  Every day, people in communities across the United States suffer immediate and worsening effects of the interlocking crises of climate, health, economic insecurity, and injustice -- impacts that could be addressed by swift passage of the Build Back Better Act. 

December 9, 2021

*** Senior Sierra Club policy staff and leadership, along with grassroots volunteers, are available to discuss the urgent need for Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act. *** As the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics prepares to release its Consumer Price Index data for November on Friday, the Senate is slated to vote soon on President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, a bill that will greatly reduce costs for struggling families in communities across the country.

December 8, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, President Biden announced an executive order to greatly reduce the federal government’s climate pollution. This order serves as a critical first step to cutting pollution from the government’s own vehicles, buildings, electricity usage, and construction materials while supporting family-sustaining manufacturing jobs.

December 2, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC -- With the Senate back in session and communities’ need for investments only growing stronger every day, it’s time for senators to pass the Build Back Better Act.