WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, a new study released by scientists at Princeton University found that the world’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat than previously thought, indicating that the climate crisis may be even more dire than first realized. Warmer oceans correlate to stronger superstorms and exacerbate climate effects like coral bleaching.
Community groups and advocates hand-delivered over 10,000 citizen protest comments to the Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico state office in snowy Santa Fe today in opposition to an oil and gas lease sale scheduled for December that would auction off close to 100,000 acres of public lands in New Mexico for industrialized fracking.
Nation’s Largest Grassroots Conservation Organization Praises Ocasio-Cortez’s Strong Commitment to Climate Action
New York, NY -- Today, the Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for New York’s 14th Congressional District.
The Sierra Club submitted more than 56,000 public comments from its members and supporters opposing the Trump Administration’s Dirty Power Plan today, the deadline for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comment period.
Zinke Made the Remark at the National Monument Designation of a Historical Site for African American Soldiers
Tuesday, representatives from Greening Greater Racine, the Sierra Club, and the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin delivered 621 petition signatures in favor of a massive solar array at the Foxconn facility in Racine to We Energies at its Milwaukee headquarters.
Tuesday, the Sierra Club released a new analysis that shows that the health impacts from Ameren Missouri’s four area coal plants led to 289 premature deaths in 2016 in the greater St. Louis area. The analysis, called “The Toll from Coal,” was produced by the national organization, Clean Air Task Force. In addition to 289 premature deaths in 2016, the analysis showed that air pollution from Ameren’s four coal plants caused 174 heart attacks and 1,903 asthma attacks that year. Ameren’s four coal plants are Labadie in Franklin County, Rush Island in Jefferson County, Sioux in St. Charles County and Meramec in south St. Louis County.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This morning, hours after active duty troops were deployed to the Southern border, reports surfaced that Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that he claims would remove the right to birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
Washington, DC -- Today, the Washington Post is reporting that the Department of the Interior’s Office of the Inspector General has transferred one of its ongoing investigations into Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice. According to the report, Inspector Generals only refer cases to the DOJ when it has determined that the subject of the investigations could face criminal charges.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following on the heels of an Environmental Protection Agency report to Congress documenting wide-spread habitat loss following enactment of U.S. biofuels policy in 2007, environmental and conservation groups today filed a petition with EPA, asserting the agency has illegally allowed millions of acres of wildlife habitat to be converted to corn and soybean crops to satiate federal biofuels policy under the Renewable Fuel Standard.