October 18, 2019
Today, Donald Trump’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) unveiled a plan to allow liquefied fracked gas to be transported by rail.
Press Releases October 2019
October 18, 2019
Virginia announced an agreement to purchase clean energy for the state government, but the state’s utility still plans to use dirty fossil fuel power plants and is still pursuing fracked gas projects
October 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today marks 47 years since the Clean Water Act was passed into law. Since then, water quality in the United States has improved remarkably. The number of healthy waterways has doubled, providing clean water for drinking, recreation and wildlife. Like other bedrock environmental safeguards, the Clean Water Act has come under attack recently as the Trump administration has sought to make it harder for states to protect local waterways.
October 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced that he has chosen his own National Doral golf resort as the site for the June 2020 G-7 summit. Trump’s Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters today that it was Trump’s idea to host the summit at his resort and the administration did not see any conflict of interest in the decision. If the Summit is hosted at Doral as planned, the Trump Organization stands to make millions of dollars from the 7 governments who will attend, which would provide a boost for the failing resort. The last time the United States hosted the summit in 2012, President Obama chose government-owned Camp David in order to cut costs for taxpayers.
October 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Republican-controlled Senate voted against an effort to reject the Trump Administration’s repeal and replacement of the Clean Power Plan.
October 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Early this morning, Representative Elijah Cummings passed away. Cummings represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District since 1996 and most recently served as the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and as a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
October 15, 2019
Conservation groups today blasted a U.S. Forest Service decision to authorize continued livestock grazing in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The forest encompasses the headwaters of the Green River, an area important for grizzly bear recovery and elk, deer and pronghorn migrations. The Service itself determined that the plan’s grazing is “likely to adversely affect” grizzly bears, which are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
October 17, 2019
Nation’s Largest Grassroots Environmental Group Praises Peters’ Leadership in Protecting Michigan’s Environment
LANSING, MI: The Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of U.S. Senator Gary Peters in the 2020 Senate election in Michigan.
October 16, 2019
Seattle, WA-- Today, at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NWPCC)’s public hearing on their annual Fish and Wildlife Plan, over 80 advocates from multiple organizations testified-- calling out the Council’s inadequate plan to protect region’s struggling steelhead and Snake-Columbia salmon populations - along with the orca that rely on them -from extinction.
After the meeting, representatives from organizations in attendance released the following statements:
October 16, 2019
JACKSON, MS -- Sierra Club is asking the Mississippi Public Service Commission to turn down a request by Mississippi Power to charge customers for as much as $45 million in unnecessary equipment at Plant Victor Daniel, a coal-fired power plant in Jackson County. Plant Daniel no longer has any value for customers and costs much more to operate than reliable clean alternatives.
October 16, 2019
Late yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to halt construction activities along the entire 303-mile route of the project
October 16, 2019
ANNAPOLIS -- Yesterday, after months of pressure from Sierra Club and other climate action groups, Governor Larry Hogan’s administration released their much delayed plan to reduce Maryland’s greenhouse gas emissions. State law set the deadline for the draft plan to be formalized and released in 2018.