WASHINGTON, D.C. - Late yesterday, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, dropped his unlawful one-year delay of the implementation of 2015 smog pollution standard after numerous environmental groups (including Sierra Club), public health organizations, and attorneys general from across the United States sued to block the effort.
San Diego -- The Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has issued a waiver allowing the agency to ignore key health and environmental safeguards in their misguided efforts to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.
In response, Dan Millis of the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon Chapter Borderlands Program issued the following statement.
SEATTLE - Olympia mayor Cheryl Selby pledged her support for moving the city of Olympia to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2035.
Washington, DC -- Last night, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered Scott Pruitt’s EPA to enforce safeguards limiting methane pollution from new oil and gas operations.
RALEIGH, N.C.— The Sierra Club on Monday filed a petition to intervene in Duke Energy Progress’ request to raise customers’ bills by 16.7 percent, or about $17.80 per month for the average residential monthly bill.
Duke is seeking approval from the North Carolina Utilities Commission of a $477.5 million increase in the amount the utility can collect from ratepayers each year.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
7/31/2017
Sierra Club Statement on Abandonment of Nuclear Plant in South Carolina
Sierra Club has opposed the dangerous V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant
since the beginning of the project
**This statement was released in conjunction with a press conference today at the National Press Club. Videos of the conference can be found on the Illinois Chapter of Sierra Club’s Facebook Page and Clean Water Action’s Facebook Page**
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Sierra Club today joined the This Land is Our Land March through Salt Lake City in support of public lands. The huge crowd was a visible demonstration of the powerful connection between booming outdoor recreation and the public lands and clean air that support it.
In response, Marc Thomas, Utah Sierra Club Chapter Chair issued the following statement.
ATLANTA, GA.—The Coosa River Basin Initiative’s executive director will be in the nation’s capital on Monday to give formal testimony against the EPA’s push to delay making polluters comply with federal water protection rules.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Tonight, the House approved an appropriations “minibus” that includes $1.6 billion in funding to support construction of Trump’s border wall while gutting funding for clean energy and undermining clean water protections. The proposed budget is slated to cut $1 billion in clean energy measures, limit the federal government’s ability to prevent water pollution and direct hard-earned taxpayer dollars toward an inhumane and anti-environmental political agenda.