Brian Willis is the deputy press secretary for federal affairs for the Sierra Club.
Dec 23 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized his decision to maintain the insufficient ground level ozone standard of 70 parts per billion, despite the…
Dec 17 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On December 15, the news broke that President-Elect Joe Biden will select former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to be his Secretary of Energy. In response, John Coequyt,…
Dec 9 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist, and soon to be former EPA Administrator, Andrew Wheeler finalized new requirements today which distort how EPA calculates the costs and benefits for its clean…
Dec 7 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former coal lobbyist turned EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler ignored the recommendations of EPA scientists and public health experts today by finalizing his proposal to not correct…
Oct 16 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - FERC approved PJM’s compliance filing for the Minimum Office Price Rule (MOPR) today, moving forward with the disastrous rule that will block most new renewable energy resources…
Oct 16 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized another rollback of clean water protections, which will allow utilities to keep dumping enormous…
Oct 1 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, former coal lobbyist and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized another rollback allowing industrial polluters to skirt the Clean Air Act to release more dangerous…
Sep 14 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Despite bipartisan demands for Donald Trump and Senate Republicans to pass a relief package providing immediate relief for families suffering -- including the hundreds of thousands…
Aug 31 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, former coal lobbyist and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler finalized another rollback of key clean water protections, which had been put in…
Aug 12 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The BW Research Partnership released a new analysis today that found the U.S. clean energy sector added a scant 3,195 jobs in July, after the sector lost a total of 511,075 jobs…