WASHINGTON, DC - In September 1968, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to proclaim National Hispanic Heritage Week. The original celebration was observed during the week that included September 15 and 16 and was expanded in 1988 by Congress to a month-long celebration (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15), effective the following year.
Bloomberg Philanthropies y el Sierra Club anunciaron que la campaña Más Allá del Carbón ha logrado retirar el 60% de las plantas térmicas de carbón de Estados Unidos —318 de las 530 hasta hoy. Este hito duplica la meta original, establecida en 2011, la cual se comprometió a retirar el 30%, la mitad, del total para este año 2020 y a acelerar la transición hacia una economía de energía limpia.
Kenosha, WI -- Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune and the Sierra Club Southeast Gateway Group Co-Chairs Tom Rutkowski and Laura Buska issued the following statement following the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha Police Department officers. In June, following the tragic murder of George Floyd, the Sierra Club joined racial justice activists to call to defund the police and invest in initiatives that ensure the survival of Black people.
Kenosha, WI -- Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune and the Sierra Club Southeast Gateway Group of Wisconsin Co-Chairs Tom Rutkowski and Laura Buska issued the following statement following the shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha Police Department officers. In June, following the tragic murder of George Floyd, the Sierra Club joined racial justice activists to call to defund the police and invest in initiatives that ensure the survival of Black people.
A broad coalition of justice and environmental groups sued the Trump administration today over its regulations that would gut environmental reviews and silence community input.
Detroit, Mich., -- Today, community members and environmental justice advocates in Detroit celebrate as Michigan Department for Environment Great Lakes and Energy announced that they have reached an agreement with Marathon Petroleum over a number of violations including a toxic release incident in February 2019.
Washington, DC -- Late Friday evening, Congressman John Lewis, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district for more than 30 years, passed away.
In response, Sierra Club National Director for Policy Advocacy and Legal Leslie Fields released the following statement:
Today, Donald Trump is expected to announce final new regulations gutting requirements for environmental reviews of fossil fuel infrastructure, logging projects, and other major federal actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Today, following years of legal and community opposition, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy announced they are cancelling construction of their 600-mile, $8 billion fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Hop Hopkins, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Sierra Club is out with a powerful piece in Sierra Magazine detailing the inextricable connection between the climate crisis and white supremacy. In the piece, he details the intersectionality between the white colonizermentality, slavery, ongoing structural racism, the modern plundering of our planet, and the murder of George Floyd by Minneappolis police.
Today, a coalition of environmental, labor and social justice groups are calling for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and state legislative leaders to extend a moratorium on utility shutoffs through the end of the year.
Washington, DC-- Over the holidays, it was revealed that the Trump administration’s Department of the Interior (DOI) will remove “sexual orientation” from the agency’s anti-discrimination guidelines. The change could have an effect on both LGBTQ people applying for jobs at DOI, as well as existing employees seeking to report discrimination internally. The decision could lead to more workplace discrimation.