Sierra Club Statement On The Start Of COP27
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT -- As the annual United Nations Climate Negotiations (COP27) begin in Sharm El-Sheikh, thousands of attendees from across the globe are convening for climate action and…
Cindy Carr is a Deputy Press Secretary for the following Sierra Club campaigns and programs: Democracy Program; Clean Water, Toxic Chemicals, and Climate Resilience Program; International Climate and Policy Campaign.
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MEMO: Sierra Club at COP27
Nov 2 2022
Ahead of COP27 next week, I'm advising that Sierra Club President Ramon Cruz, Sierra Club International Climate and Policy Director Cherelle Blazer, Sierra Club Director of Policy, Advocacy, and…
Sierra Club Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
Oct 18 2022
WASHINGTON, DC -- Fifty years ago today -- on October 18, 1972 -- Congress passed the Clean Water Act with extraordinary bipartisan support, and in the decades since, the Act has served as our most…
Sierra Club Statement On Final January 6 Congressional Hearing
Oct 13 2022
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the January 6 House Select Committee held its final hearing to investigate Trump’s insurrection and the criminal conspiracy to overturn a free and fair election. The…
Sierra Club Statement On Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Case
Oct 3 2022
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a fossil fuel and industry backed effort to gut the Clean Water Act by narrowing…
Republican Senators Block Progress On Democracy Again
Sep 22 2022
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today Republican Senators employed the filibuster, a Jim Crow-era tool, to prevent the Senate from holding a vote or even starting a debate on the Democracy Is Strengthened by…
Sierra Club Celebrates Ratification of Kigali Amendment
Sep 21 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted 69-27 to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, finalizing the amendment that was first agreed upon by 150 nations in 2016. The Kigali…
EPA Lists Two PFAS Chemicals Under Superfund Law
Aug 26 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the EPA proposed a new rule to list two PFAS chemicals – PFOS and PFOA – as hazardous substances under the United States’ federal Superfund law, giving EPA the authority to…
EU Announces 15 Percent Decrease In Methane Gas Consumption In Response To Russia
Jul 26 2022
EUROPE -- Today, the European Union announced it will decrease its bloc-wide methane gas, sometimes referred to as “natural gas,” consumption by 15 percent between now and Spring 2023 in response to…
Sierra Club Celebrates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Swearing-In To Supreme Court
Jul 1 2022
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially sworn in as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Jackson was confirmed by a bipartisan Senate vote in…