President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris were elected with a decisive mandate to take the bold action needed to address the climate crisis. If interested, Sierra Club experts are available to speak to Biden’s climate mandate, the ongoing transition, and what the climate community expects to see from the incoming administration.
If interested, please contact Jonathon Berman at jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org.
Biden’s Climate Mandate
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, both the House and Senate released their funding proposals for 2021.
In response, Sierra Club Deputy Legislative Director Kirin Kennedy released the following statement:
U.S. Court of Appeals for DC Circuit issued ruled against FERC's controversial practice of issuing tolling orders. The decision has major implications for how fracked gas pipelines get approved and built in the US
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, according to several reports, Scott Pruitt’s EPA announced the first step in his efforts to replace the Clean Power Plan with a polluter-friendly alternative, throwing out a plan that would prevent 3,600 premature deaths and 90,000 asthma attacks every year by 2030.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following the election of Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate from Alabama, the Sierra Club is joining the call to push for Jones to be seated as soon as possible and for any votes on the Republican tax scheme to be delayed until that happens, in line with logic used by Senate Republicans following the election of Scott Brown in 2010.
According to E&E News, the Super PAC supporting Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s nominee to be EPA Administrator, is set to continue operations even in the event that Pruitt be confirmed.
Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued an opinion affirming that a West Virginia coal mine violated the Clean Water Act when it discharged toxic pollution into nearby waterways.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to take up a slurry bills this week aimed at stripping away vital clean air and water protections that safeguard public health.
Today, just ahead of the confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s nominee for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Sierra Club released two hard-hitting ads revealing why Scott Pruitt’s history as a polluter ally makes him unfit to head the agency.
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee started the confirmation process to consider President-elect Donald Trump’s selection for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. During the hearing, Rex Tillerson claimed that climate science is not conclusive.
In response to reporting this morning from Reuters indicating that "U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website" Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement.
WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to begin the process of repealing several Obama-era actions tackling the climate crisis and protecting clean air and water, including steps to begin the process of dismantling the Clean Power Plan, roll back Oil and Gas New Source Performance Standards, rescind NEPA guidance that directs agencies to account for the climate crisis, and end efforts to reform the broken federal coal leasing program.