Octubre 10, organizaciones ambientales, agroecológicas, comunitarias y municipales convocaron a la prensa a la vista argumentativa de la demanda entablada contra el gobierno de Puerto Rico y varias agencias por violar el Plan de Uso de Terrenos y la Ley de Política Pública Energética en los procesos de aprobación de proyectos industriales de energía renovable en suelos de alto valor agrícola y ecológicamente sensitivos.
Washington, DC -- On December 11th, President-elect Joe Biden introduced Tom Vilsack as his intended nominee for Secretary of Agriculture.
In response, Sierra Club Acting Our Wild America Director Chris Hill released the following statement:
“It is critical that President-elect Biden’s cabinet be filled with nominees who will advance bold solutions -- rooted in justice and equity -- at the size and scale needed to address the climate crisis.
WASHINGTON, DC – As North Carolina communities grapple with the pollution from industrial pig, chicken, and turkey operations that flooded during Hurricane Florence, community groups and an allied national coalition filed a legal complaint in federal court late Friday challenging a Trump administration policy that unlawfully exempts industrial animal feeding operations from having to report toxic pollution under a federal emergency planning and right-t