May 5, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Sierra Club unveiled a new tool that shows the pollution toll of the Trump Administration’s planned rollbacks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s safeguards on coal pollution.
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April 21, 2025
Washington, D.C. - According to a notice reported by POLITICO’s E&E News, in a first round of layoffs, the Trump administration will begin firing Environmental Protection Agency staff focused on environmental justice issues on July 31.
April 10, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club responded to Donald Trump’s sweeping “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting” executive order which seeks to retire key safeguards and would hollow out nearly all environmental protections on the books.
April 2, 2025
Washington, D.C. - The operators of Colstrip Power Plant have requested a presidential exemption from the Environmental Protection Agency’s updated Mercury and Air Toxics Standard after Trump's EPA openly invited the fossil fuel industry to email the agency with requests for presidential exemptions from critical safeguards in the Clean Air Act.
March 27, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency created a new pathway for oil- and coal-burning power plants to evade air pollution standards: Just send an email.
Sierra Club Statement on Trump Administration’s Announced Reconsideration of Clean Vehicle Standards
March 12, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, as part of a suite of “deregulatory actions” attacking health, clean air, and climate, the Trump administration announced its plan to reconsider the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles.
March 12, 2025
Washington, D.C. - In an internal memo, Lee Zeldin announced the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to shut down all offices responsible for addressing the disproportionat
March 7, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued new guidance that all spending items over $50,000 must be approved by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. This would affect routine EPA expenditures to monitor air and water pollution, hazardous waste disposal, and necessary equipment purchases.
March 5, 2025
Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is holding a hearing to consider the nominations of David Fotouhi as the next Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Aaron Szabo as the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation.
February 21, 2025
Denver, CO - Today the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) voted to approve new rules implementing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oil and gas methane reduction requirements. The Regulation 7 rulemaking requires operators to eliminate methane-emitting pneumatic devices at oil and gas sites throughout the state and prioritizes reductions in areas that are violating ozone pollution standards. Colorado is the first state to incorporate these provisions into its state methane plan—due to the EPA by March 2026.
February 21, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club called on Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin to publicly release the EPA’s recommendation on whether to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate climate pollution under the federal Clean Air Act. Trump’s dangerously misguided Day 1 executive order called for a 30-day review of EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding, which the agency says was submitted to the White House by the deadline of Wednesday of this week.