WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Department of the Interior announced a new scheme to downsize its workforce. The announcement of a voluntary layoff program comes one year after Interior,…
Washington D.C. — Gulf and environmental groups sued the Trump Administration today over its decision to strip Endangered Species Act protection from imperiled species threatened by oil-and-gas…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, the Trump administration utilized the decisionmaking power of a ubiquitous federal committee to send the critically endangered Rice’s Whale to extinction. The…
Oakland, CA — A federal court struck down President Trump’s attacks against the Endangered Species Act (ESA), restoring key values of the bedrock environmental law to the status it held for decades…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sierra Club has endorsed the Veterans Outdoor Rehabilitation Act, a bipartisan bill introduced on March 27 by Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), John Boozman…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump Administration has invoked “national security concerns” to justify exempting all oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species…
On Tuesday, March 24, the Sierra Club is hosting a virtual panel discussion with conservation, wildlife, tribal, and legal experts to highlight the growing movement working to defend our public lands…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, March 16, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced via notice in the Federal Register that the Endangered Species Committee — a federal panel created in 1978 that…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Official Trump Administration documents obtained by the Sierra Club reveal the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) took steps to censor materials at its headquarters in…
TERLINGUA, TEXAS — The Sierra Club has joined more than 130 conservation groups, outfitters and rural Texas businesses in urging Congress to block federal funding for border wall construction in Big…