LEESBURG, VA -- Today, the national Sierra Club Political Committee launched “Fossil Fools 2018”, the beginning of an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign targeting 10 incumbent Congressional Republicans, including Representative Barbara Comstock, for defeat.
AURORA, CO -- Today, the national Sierra Club Political Committee launched “Fossil Fools 2018”, the beginning of an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign targeting 10 incumbent Congressional Republicans, including Representative Mike Coffman, for defeat.
RICHMOND, VA -- Today, the national Sierra Club Political Committee launched “Fossil Fools 2018”, the beginning of an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign targeting 10 incumbent Congressional Republicans, including Representative David Brat, for defeat.
Today, the Sierra Club Political Committee launched “Fossil Fools 2018”, the beginning of an aggressive midterm electoral ad campaign targeting 10 incumbent Congressional Republicans for defeat. The “Fossil Fools” have made their allegiance to corporate polluters clear by voting repeatedly against climate action and clean air and water protections, with environmental voting records ranging from disastrously low to 0%, according to the League of Conservation Voters Scorecard.
MISSOULA, Mont.— Federal safeguards for Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears were reinstated today after a judge ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the population was illegal. The decision spares the grizzlies from a planned trophy hunt scheduled to begin this fall in Wyoming and Idaho. Earthjustice, representing the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and National Park Conservation Association, argued for restoring protections to Yellowstone grizzly bears.
Missoula, MT-- Moments ago, a judge ruled that safeguards for Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears are restored, deciding that Sec. Zinke’s Department of the Interior decision to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the population was illegal.
In response, scientists, wildlife biologists and photographers released the following statements:
Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation will repeal a safety measure requiring upgrades to the brakes on rail cars carrying explosive crude oil. The original rule was issued in 2015 in response to a series of train derailments and explosions that killed dozens of people.
TEXAS - Last week, American Electric Power (AEP) announced that the Oklaunion coal-fired power plant in Vernon, Texas will be shutting down no later than September 2020.This is welcome news to Texans and Oklahomans alike who currently breathe air polluted by this plant.
Oklaunion, an approximate 700-megawatt power plant, is owned by AEP Texas, Brownsville Public Utilities Board, Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority and the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
FRESNO, CA -- Today, citizens from across California voiced their opposition to Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s and NHSTA’s Acting Administrator King proposed rollback of the clean car standards at a public hearing. Hundreds of Californians attended, including former EPA and auto industry employees, speaking out strongly in support of the standards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, a U.S. District court announced that legal challenges to the Trump administration’s move to strip Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments of protections will be heard in Washington, D.C. The decision is a setback for the administration, which pushed to have the case heard in Utah. The judge also stated that Sec. Zinke’s Department of the Interior must give Tribal Nations and other affected parties advance notice of mining activities proposed within the original monument boundaries.