NEW YORK CITY, NY – Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced a nearly $200 million investment to slash emissions from cars and trucks and invest in electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency released critical new draft rules to curb methane emissions and other pollution from the oil and gas industry. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Methane emissions are also emitted alongside other harmful pollution that puts communities at risk of serious negative health effects.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, the United States and the European Union announced a groundbreaking trade agreement to crack down on the outsourcing of steel and aluminum manufacturing to countries where production causes far more climate pollution. Under the deal, the U.S.
President Biden and House Democrats have unveiled the framework for the Build Back Better Act, including the biggest investments in climate initiatives in American history. The package includes $27 billion to restore forests, fight wildfires, and sequester carbon through nationwide tree-planting and critical Old-Growth protection programs, among other major green space investments.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND -- Today, the annual United Nations Climate Negotiations (COP26) began in Glasgow, with thousands of attendees from across the globe convening for climate action and discussions. The event began with Bloomberg Philanthropies announcing a huge new initiative aiming to close 25% of the world’s remaining coal plants—and all of the proposed plants—by 2025.
In response, the Sierra Club’s International Climate and Policy Campaign Director, Cherelle Blazer, issued the following statement:
Washington, DC -- The United States Supreme Court agreed today to review a lower court’s decision striking down the Trump Administration’s so-called Affordable Clean Energy rule.
Today, the Bureau of Land Management announced a plan to defer a number of leases from upcoming onshore oil and gas lease sales and issue draft environmental assessments for these leases. BLM will solicit feedback on the leases and analyze environmental impacts including national greenhouse gas emissions and the social cost of greenhouse gases.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Sierra Club and Data for Progress released the results of a new nationwide survey that finds broad public support for specific climate investments that were unveiled in the new text of the Build Back Better Act released yesterday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Democrats have released draft legislative text spelling out the details of President Biden’s transformational Build Back Better Act, which would invest over $500 billion in climate action, clean energy jobs, and environmental justice -- the largest such investment in U.S. history. Yesterday, President Biden unveiled the framework for the Build Back Better plan, followed by the House Rules Committee releasing draft text of the bill.
Today, Governor Newsom announced that the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) has issued new draft health and safety rules requiring that newly constructed oil and gas extraction sites must be at least 3,200 feet from California homes, schools, and public parks. This first of its kind draft rule is one of the longest setback distances in the nation, and will help guard Californian communities from toxic pollution from oil and gas wells.