WASHINGTON, D.C.: Interior Secretary Zinke has issued a secretarial order beginning a review of federal and state sage grouse plans. The plans were the result of an extensive, bipartisan, collaborative agreement between conservationists, ranchers and local governments to save the sage grouse before it became endangered. Once found throughout the West, the Greater Sage Grouse are rapidly declining.
Lincoln, NE — Pipeline Fighters from Nebraska and across the region marched through the streets of Lincoln, Nebraska today -- on the eve of a weeklong public hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline before the Nebraska Public Service Commission, where Nebraska farmers and ranchers, The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Yankton Sioux Tribe, Bold Alliance and other environmental and citizen advocates will present evidence on why TransCanada’s tarsands export pipeline is unnecessary and not in the public interest.
SPRING HOPE, NC -- Over 60 people joined the Sierra Club, Sound Rivers, and 350 Triangle for a trip down the Tar River today, paddling past the survey marks for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline to highlight just how bad the project could be for North Carolina’s waterways and wetlands. A project of Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia and North Carolina.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Trump Administration announced that it plans to deliver a written notice to the UN that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
SPRING HOPE, N.C. -- North Carolinians and the Sierra Club are organizing a canoe and kayak trip down the Tar River to show residents and media the ways in which Duke Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would negatively affect the state’s waterways. The pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through eight North Carolina Counties, crossing over 560 creeks, rivers, and wetlands before stopping in Robeson County.
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said gas infrastructure was necessary to “live the life we want to live” in Pennsylvania. This comes just days after 61 spills were reported along the Mariner East 2 pipeline route and a Pennsylvania judge ordered drilling halted at 55 locations. Governor Wolf also stated that he personally spoke to the head of Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of the Mariner East 2 pipeline.
Lincoln, NE -- The Intertribal Coalition of Nebraska and the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma will come together in Lincoln on Tuesday to take a historic stand against the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The five sovereign nations in Nebraska will sign a Treaty opposing the pipeline and tar sands expansion.
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
Contact: Trey Pollard trey.pollard@sierraclub.org
Sierra Club Statement on Jim Justice Switching Back to the Republican Party
Washington, DC -- Today, the Senate voted to confirm Donald Trump’s nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Neil Chatterjee and Rob Powelson.
SPRING HOPE, N.C. -- North Carolinians and the Sierra Club are organizing a canoe and kayak trip down the Tar River to show residents and media the ways in which Duke Energy’s proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would negatively affect the state’s waterways. The pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through eight North Carolina Counties, crossing over 560 creeks, rivers, and wetlands before stopping in Robeson County.