October 19, 2021
This month, Sierra Club Military Outdoors and researchers at the University of Utah presented findings from a study on the effects of outdoors exposure and wilderness trips on veterans’ mental health.
Press Releases
October 18, 2021
October 17, 2021
Reports emerged this month that Congress was considering massive cuts to the proposed Civilian Climate Corps in the Build Back Better Act to meet the fiscal demands of moderate Democrats. Such a move would severely limit the impact of the modern CCC, leaving many vulnerable communities at risk to the increasing threats of climate change. The modern CCC is consistently one of the most popular proposals in the reconciliation bill, with a majority of Americans — including a majority of Republicans — in favor of the program.
October 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to New York Times reporting on the uncertain fate of a major climate provision of the Build Back Better Act, the Sierra Club released the following statement. In addition, Sierra Club West Virginia Conservation Committee Chair Jim Kotcon released a statement below.
October 15, 2021
Yesterday, the fossil fuel company Air Products announced plans for a $4.5 billion “blue hydrogen” plant and accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facility for Ascension Parish. Parish officials, Governor John Bel Edwards, and Air Products claim that hydrogen and CCS are climate solutions that will produce low-carbon fuel, but fail to acknowledge that blue hydrogen is derived from methane, which is 20 percent dirtier than burning gas or even coal, and methane is more than 80 percent more potent than carbon in warming our climate during the time it’s in the atmosphere.
October 15, 2021
San Francisco, CA -- Wells Fargo announced today that it has joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), following its commitment in March to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
October 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Public Citizen, Sierra Club, 350.org, Americans for Financial Reform, Evergreen Action, and Action Center on Race and the Economy today delivered more than 40,000 petition signatures to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding that an upcoming report highlight the gravity of climate threats to our financial system and identify concrete steps that financial regulators should take to address them.
October 15, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - From across Minnesota, public comments submitted to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) are calling for a rejection of Xcel Energy’s plans to build two new gas-fired peaker plants. These plants were included in the utility’s most recent Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), currently under consideration by the PUC.
October 14, 2021
October 14, 2021
Washington, DC -- Today, the White House—under the leadership of National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy—released a roadmap for a government-wide effort to identify and mitigate climate-related financial risk, as directed by President Biden’s May