May 26, 2020
Experts, including the lead economist and report’s author, will give further detail about the landmark report detailing the millions of jobs that could be created by Congress passing a bold, forward-looking stimulus package.
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May 26, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club released a landmark report and the Political Economy Research Institute released a new economic analysis detailing the millions of jobs that could be created by Congress passing a bold, forward-looking stimulus package in an exclusive to The Hill. The report, Millions of Good Jobs: A Plan for Economic Renewal, found that such a stimulus plan could create family-sustaining jobs for over 9 million Americans each year for the next 10 years while helping to tackle public health issues, joblessness, inequity, and the climate crisis. Even further, this bold plan would strengthen our clean energy economy with cleaner air and water, higher wages, healthier communities, and a more stable climate by enabling a 45 percent reduction in U.S. climate pollution by 2030.
January 29, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump signed his NAFTA 2.0 trade deal, despite serious, high-profile concerns over the proposal from leading members of Congress.
January 16, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted to pass Donald Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 despite serious, high-profile concerns over the proposal.Over the past two weeks, prominent members of Congress -- including Senators Sanders, Harris, Schumer, Gillibrand, Markey, Whitehouse, and more -- have pledged to vote against Trump’s deal, citing its major climate failures as a primary reason for their opposition.
December 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s NAFTA 2.0.
December 13, 2019
Today, the nation's largest and most influential environmental groups sent a joint letter to members of Congress urging them to vote no on Trump's NAFTA 2.0.
December 11, 2019
Following yesterday’s release of Trump’s revised NAFTA 2.0, the Sierra Club evaluated the newly-updated text against the fundamental changes the environmental community has repeatedly called for. (See here for a two-page environmental analysis of the revised deal.) The revised deal fails on each of the 7 core environmental priorities that the Sierra Club and other leading environmental organizations have consistently named, most recently in a joint letter to Congress sent on Monday.
December 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, the Trump administration signed a tentative deal with Mexico and Canada to make revisions to Trump’s NAFTA 2.0. While details of the deal are still pending, a factsheet from the House Ways and Means Committee indicates that the deal’s core environmental failures have not been resolved.
June 27, 2019
GENEVA -- Today, the World Trade Organization (WTO) sided with India in response to the country’s 2016 WTO complaint against U.S. buy-local policies in eight state-level clean energy programs.
April 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released its analysis on the economic consequences of Donald Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 trade deal.
March 26, 2019
Washington, DC -- Today, Mitch McConnell’s rushed political ploy to force a vote on Senator Markey and Representative Ocasio-Cortez’ nonbinding Green New Deal resolution prior to formal legislation being drafted or any hearings being held backfired. Rather than creating a political wedge, the theatrics and misinformation pushed by Senate Republicans exposed their lack of a sensible plan to combat climate change.
February 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that, in a cynical political ploy, he will rush a vote on the Green New Deal resolution proposed by Senator Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rather than allowing it to go through the hearings and legislative process it was intended to have. This news comes after McConnell pushed to keep a costly and unreliable coal plant open, at the expense of his own constituents.