Washington, DC - A number of federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, are beginning to detail plans to fast-track unnecessary, dirty energy infrastructure projects without sufficient review. Agencies were directed to complete reports within 30 days by Donald Trump’s executive order declaring an energy emergency. Projects that could be rushed through without proper review range from LNG export facilities along the Gulf Coast that harm local communities and drive up consumer energy prices to highly controversial pipelines like Line 5, which ships Canadian oil through the Great Lakes and back to Canada threatening the safety of the drinking water supply for 40 million people.
The Trump administration has taken steps to throw out 50 years worth of rules implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental safeguard designed to protect communities and give them a voice in federal permitting decisions.
Today, Donald Trump fired almost 400 probationary employees at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Bozeman, MT – Today the Montana Sierra Club, represented by Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, filed a motion to intervene to defend the 2024 Yellowstone National Park Bison Management Plan, which increases population objectives from 3,000 animals to 6,000.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration conducted a mass firing of federal employees, creating even more chaos in an already roiled federal government.
Washington, D.C. - Heatmap News recently acquired a letter that conservative groups, including the Heartland Institute, Caesar Rodney Institute, and Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, sent to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, requesting Secretary Burgum walk back offshore wind development in the United States.
WASHINGTON, DC – As a result of Donald Trump’s broad executive orders restricting the language that federal agencies are allowed to use, the National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people from their webpages, including the one on the Stonewall National Monument. Other pages referencing the queer community have shortened LGBTQ+ to LGB. Other federal agencies are also removing references to women pioneers and contributors on their webpages.
Knoxville, T.N. - On Valentine’s Day, residents across Tennessee wrote valentines to the Tennessee Valley Authority, urging the federal utility to prioritize clean energy as board members finalize TVA’s Integrated Resource Plan.
Knoxville, T.N. - Today, Sierra Club members attended the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board meeting to express concerns regarding the reliance on toxic fossil fuels in the country’s largest federal utility’s long-term energy plan.