Brian Willis

Brian Willis is the deputy press secretary for federal affairs for the Sierra Club.

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Trump’s New Ploy to Force Electricity Customers, Taxpayers to Bailout Uneconomic Coal and Nuclear Plants

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Media outlets reported earlier today that the Trump Administration is considering using the Defense Production Act - a relic of the Cold War - to force electricity customers and…

Sierra Club: Trump and Pruitt Stoop to New Low in Clean Air Act Attack

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Donald Trump issued an executive order today ordering the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recklessly cut short the review of clean air permits and reconsider important…

Amid Corruption Scandals, Pruitt Tries to Do Corporate Polluters More Favors By Gutting Enforcement of the Clean Water Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, CNN reports that a memo released by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility shows that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, embattled among numerous scandals over…

FirstEnergy Solutions’ Bankruptcy is a Cautionary Tale for Utilities, Investors, and Public Officials

WASHINGTON, D.C. - FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) -- together with its subsidiaries FirstEnergy Generation and FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company -- announced its bankruptcy last night after years of…

Sierra Club Sends Letter to Secretary Perry Urging Him to Reject FirstEnergy Solutions’ Bailout Request

Click here to view letterWASHINGTON, D.C. - The Sierra Club sent a letter to Energy Secretary Rick Perry today urging him to reject FirstEnergy Solutions’ request for him to illegally use emergency…

If Rick Perry and Trump Admin. Illegally Bail Out FirstEnergy Solutions, Sierra Club will Sue and Win

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, FirstEnergy Solutions (FES), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corporation, formally requested that Energy Secretary Rick Perry use an extraordinary emergency order (Section 202c of…

Pruitt Weakens the New Source Review Program, Endangering Communities with Toxic Air Pollution

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced today that he is severely weakening the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review (NSR) program for air pollution…

U.S. District Court Reminds Scott Pruitt to Follow the Law and Implement Smog Standards

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California found that Scott Pruitt had illegally delayed the Environmental Protection Agency’s designation…

Scott Pruitt is Trying to Sell the Safety of Our Water to Industrial Polluters

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday evening, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed weakening vital clean water protections against toxic coal ash. His proposal clears the way for polluters, and polluter…

New Study Shows Environmental Racism and Economic Injustice in Health Burdens of Particulate Pollution in U.S.

For Report Click Here WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new study by scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published today in the American Journal of Public Health found that facilities…