July 29, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration announced it is rolling back the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean vehicle standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles.
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July 24, 2025
Oakland, CA — The Sierra Club has filed its latest FOIA-related lawsuit against the Trump Administration, this time seeking to hold the Department of Transportation accountable for its failure to respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests for DOT’s records related to withholding of federal funds and communications with external parties.
June 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, dozens of environmental, consumer, labor, and community organizations representing millions of members sent a letter to the Senate urging lawmakers to vote no on Donald Trump’s dangerous so-called “One, Big Beautiful” reconciliation bill that will provide tax cuts for billionaires and corporate polluters while cutting clean energy jobs and abruptly getting rid of critical tax credits for transitioning to cleaner cars, trucks, and buses.
June 25, 2025
WASHINGTON STATE – Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Tana Lin for the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington issued a preliminary injunction lifting the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze of federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. NEVI is a transformative $5 billion initiative to build reliable and convenient fast charging stations for electric vehicles along major highways nationwide.
June 12, 2025
Sacramento, CA – Today, Governor Newsom issued an executive order moving forward California’s clean transportation progress in the face of federal attacks.
June 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Sierra Club and Public Citizen called on Toyota Motor Company’s Board Chair Akio Toyoda to step down ahead of the company’s annual general meeting.
June 6, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation Administrator Sean Duffy published a final rule that paves the way for the administration to roll back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, commonly known as fuel economy standards.
June 5, 2025
Washington, DC – Last night, Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released text of their section of Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” in the Senate.
May 27, 2025
BEAUMONT, Calif. — In the most recent in a series of legal victories against unchecked warehouse development in the Inland Empire, the Sierra Club secured a comprehensive settlement Tuesday requiring rigorous environmental protections for the proposed Beaumont Pointe warehouse and distribution center. The massive, 5 million-square-foot facility will be built in the Badlands near Beaumont.
May 23, 2025
NATIONWIDE – Today, governors from 11 states – California, Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington – announced they are joining together in a new Affordable Clean Car Coalition which will help states tackle vehicle pollution and lower barriers for consumers to more affordably own, drive, charge, and maintain clean cars.
May 22, 2025
WASHINGTON STATE – Today, a coalition of environmental, consumer, and community organizations joined a challenge to the Trump administration’s unlawful and indefinite freeze of billions in federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, a transformative, $5 billion initiative to build electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles on major corridors across all 50 states.
May 22, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an unprecedented move, the Senate today passed Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions introduced by Senate Republicans to repeal three California clean vehicle programs: Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty low-NOx Omnibus.