January 30, 2017
Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to confirm Rep. Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Governor Rick Perry as the Secretary of the Department of Energy.
federal-policy
January 12, 2017
According to E&E News, those working for and supporting Oklahoma Attorney General and Trump nominee to be EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, have opened a new political operation while shuttering his leadership PAC and Super PAC.
January 29, 2017
President Trump signed an executive order this morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.
January 26, 2017
This week, Myron Ebell, the former head of President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, said he expects the agency to see significant cuts in its budget and workforce-- by up to at least half to begin with.
January 24, 2017
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.
March 26, 2017
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.
January 23, 2017
Today, the Badlands National Park twitter account starting posting facts about climate change -- only for those tweets to be swiftly deleted, while others from the day remain. Its part of a disturbing trend that began with Donald Trump almost exclusively appointing climate deniers to his administration and continued when all references to climate change (& LGBT protections, protections for the disabled, and civil rights) were deleted from the White House website and a gag order was imposed on the EPA and other agencies this week.
February 16, 2017
LITTLE ROCK.-- Today, the U.S. Senate voted to approve Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In response, Glen Hooks, Arkansas Sierra Club’s Director, released the following statement:
January 22, 2017
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11 to 10 to confirm Rex Tillerson, former ExxonMobil CEO, as Secretary of State.
February 15, 2017
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate will vote on whether or not to approve Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
January 19, 2017
Today, Donald Trump released his energy plans moments after being sworn in as President.
September 10, 2017
White House Homeland Security Advisory Tom Bossert, when pressed on the increased severity and frequency of Hurricanes by a White House reporter, just told the American people that “We continue to take the climate change seriously, not the cause of it, but the things that we observe.” This statement stands in stark contrasts to the actual actions taken by this administration, including repeated efforts to defund climate change research, censorship of the term “climate change” throughout the federal government, the appointment of climate deniers to the highest posts in the Administration, and the elimination of President Obama’s flood risk rule just weeks before Hurricane Harvey hit.