Washington, DC – Today, the United States Senate passed the House Republican government funding measure that makes drastic cuts to essential services the American people rely on, dismantles critical environmental protections, and sacrifices the health and safety of American families all to provide bigger handouts and kickbacks to corporate polluters.
Joining Republicans to advance the measure procedurally were Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats.
Washington, DC – Today, House Republicans passed legislation that makes dangerous cuts to essential services the American people rely on, dismantles critical environmental protections, and sacrifices the health and safety of American families all to provide bigger handouts and kickbacks to corporate polluters.
Washington, DC – Tonight, House Republicans adopted a FY2025 Budget Resolution that makes dangerous cuts to essential services and paves the way for huge handouts to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced the nomination of Doug Burgum to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Burgum is the current governor of North Dakota.
Washington, DC – This week, Donald Trump announced the nomination of Matt Gaetz to serve as United States Attorney General.
In response to the nomination, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
Washington, DC – Late last night, Congressional Republican leaders canceled a vote on the FY2025 Energy and Water Appropriations bill and pulled the measure from the House floor. Today, the House is considering FY25 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. Both bills, ripe with poison pill riders and attacks on unrelated Biden administration climate policies, would make drastic cuts to the EPA and other agencies.
Today, Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, new legislation that would open up federal lands and waters to more leasing and drilling and unnecessarily rush the review of proposed gas export projects, forcing decisions to be based on flawed, outdated studies.
On Friday, a group of Senate Republicans and Independents Manchin and Sinema introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution attempting to overturn a rule, released this spring by the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which would guide federal decision making under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on growth in demand for electric power, citing increased domestic manufacturing, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), and digitalization.
Washington, DC – Today, Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan will visit Charlotte, North Carolina to announce $20 billion in funding will be awarded through two Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund competitions to advance clean technology projects in communities across the country.
Today, House Republicans rolled out a set of bills they plan to vote on as part of a so-called “energy week” next week.
Washington, DC – A new report released this week by the Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis at American University shows that, if successful, Congressional Republicans’ effort to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) clean energy credits would reduce our nation’s GDP by 2 percent.