Washington, DC -- Tonight, in the midst of a Category 4 hurricane about to strike the Texas coast, Donald Trump signed a memo banning transgender people from serving in the military and pardoned Joe Arpaio.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
Salt Lake City, UT -- Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke released a vague report about the remaining 21 national monuments under review. Details about reduction of acreage was not made public. Utah continues to wait for the details that will outline the fate of our precious Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. During the wait, crowds of Utahns have and are expected to flood Representative Rob Bishop’s town halls demonstrating their discontent with the constant local attacks on invaluable public lands.
COLUMBUS, OH - Today, Sierra Club, AEP, PUCO Staff and other stakeholders reached agreement in a case before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) that will advance an existing agreement to develop 900 MW of clean renewable energy, as well as initiate
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Duke Energy Carolinas today announced it wants to scrap plans for the Lee Nuclear Station and to also make North Carolina customers bail the company out for at least $368 million of the money it’s spent on planning and pre-construction costs for the Gaffney, S.C.-based project.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Sierra Club today filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on recommendations from Interior Secretary Zinke on the future of public lands protected as national monuments. The summary report from Secretary Zinke was void of any actual recommendations or decision-making metrics.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Though not yet made public, news reports today indicate Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke submitted to the White House his final recommendation on the future of public lands and waters currently protected for this and future generations as national monuments. The recommendation, which is reported to include “boundary adjustments,” follows an executive order from President Trump opening national monuments for review -- with the clear intent to sell-out public lands to special interests.
LINCOLN, NE-- Today, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is expected to be in Lincoln, NE for a “secret meeting” with Jim Macy, the head of Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality and potentially the Governor as well, though the Governor’s office refused to confirm or comment.
In response, John Crabtree, Sierra Club’s Campaign Representative in Nebraska released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, released a controversial grid report in an effort to pressure market operators, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and utilities to bail out aging coal and nuclear plants by forcing electricity customers to pay more for their expensive electricity.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tomorrow Bay Area residents will rally in front of the Department of the Interior’s San Francisco offices to push back on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s expected recommendations to erase public lands protections. Tomorrow is the deadline for Zinke to make recommendations on multiple national monuments, including those protecting forests, marine areas and archaeological sites. Seven monuments in California are among those on the list. The recommendations follow an executive order from President Trump in May.
NEW YORK CITY-- The nine Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states officially announced their proposed update to the program, establishing limits on carbon pollution from the region’s power plants through 2030. The states modeled three different scenarios for the future of the program and decided on a 30 percent reduction by 2030 from 2020 levels.