Washington, DC -- Today, the Department of the Interior moved to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s safeguards for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands.
The fracking rule, put in place by the Obama administration, was enacted after years-long process and would be the first safeguards for the fossil fuel extraction process on tribal and publicly-owned lands.
WASHINGTON — For six years, National Drive Electric Week has inspired drivers to ditch the gas station. The seventh annual National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) is on track to boast more events than ever before. Still two months away from National Drive Electric Week, there are more than 175 registered events across the globe featuring plug-in electric vehicle (EV) ride-n-drives and related activities from Sept. 9 to 17, 2017 with more registered events coming in every week.
ATLANTA, GA.—The Sierra Club today served a notice of intent to sue Georgia Power to block the company’s plan to drain its ash ponds at 11 coal-burning power plant sites without getting updated permits that would protect waterways and the public’s health.
Harrisburg, PA--Governor Wolf allowed Senate Bill 624 to pass in to law today. The bill creates an exemption to an 80 year old law that protects streams and water supplies and will allow mining companies to predictably damage or pollute streams based on a promise to clean them up later, instead of preventing the damage in the first place.
HOLLISTER, CA -- The Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society (collectively the “Environmental Groups”), the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), and Panoche Valley Solar LLC (a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Development, Inc.), have entered into a settlement agreement concerning the size and location of a solar project currently under development in California’s Panoche Valley. The agreement will help advance renewable energy in the state, create local jobs, and protect the environment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paved the way today for the 600-mile 42-inch fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline to proceed when it issued the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). A joint project of utility giants Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would move fracked gas from West Virginia into Virginia and North Carolina.
Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt, met with agriculture partners in Arkansas to promote the Trump Administration’s environmental agenda, including rollbacks to the federal Clean Water Act – a bedrock protection against dangerous pollution contaminating America’s waterways and drinking water supplies.
Glen Hooks, Director of the Arkansas Sierra Club, issued the following statement in response:
Los Angeles, CA -- Today, the Sierra Club launched an ad campaign urging the Los Angeles Metro to make the switch to zero emission buses. On July 27, the Metro board is expected to formally vote on a transition to a 100 percent zero-emissions electric bus fleet by 2030. The two videos showcase the clean air, climate and jobs benefits through the lense of two current zero emission bus workers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on whether to confirm Jeffrey Bossert Clark, an attorney who represented BP during the litigation following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD). If confirmed, Clark would lead DOJ's enforcement of environmental laws and regulations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House passed HR218 or the King Cove Road Land Exchange Act— a bill that authorizes the building of a road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
In response, Sierra Club’s public lands policy director Athan Manuel released the following statement:
“King Cove residents deserve quality, emergency access to healthcare.