August 17, 2018
AUSTIN, TX – Instead of protecting public health and the environment, EPA has proposed a plan that will continue to allow air pollution to darken skies and threaten communities and national parks, community members and advocates say.
Press Releases
August 17, 2018
Washington, DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is once again struggling with the truth. Zinke has consistently stated that he would not sell of public lands -- including at his confirmation hearing. However, that appears to be exactly what he’s doing.
August 17, 2018
DTE Energy held the second (of two) open houses for its integrated resource plan (IRP), a document which outlines the utility’s future plans and will have significant impacts on customers. A group of twenty ratepayers, concerned citizens, and stakeholders gathered to deliver comments from their members which expressed concerns about the engagement process.
August 16, 2018
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina issued a nationwide injunction today on the Trump Administration's delay of the Clean Water Rule. The decision means the Clean Water Rule is once again the law of the land in 26 states where district court judges have not stayed the rule’s clean water protections.
August 16, 2018
Washington, DC -- The Forest Service today released a new forest management strategy for wildfire. The strategy has a strong emphasis on science and climate change, and calls for prescribed fire and other proven safety measures. In contrast, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is continuing his media tour on current wildfires, but focusing on inflammatory language, denying climate change’s role depending on the outlet he’s speaking to, and exploiting the ongoing fires striking communities across the West to push his and Donald Trump’s political agenda.
August 16, 2018
Asbury Park, NJ -- Today, the New Jersey Sierra Club announced its endorsement of Senator Bob Menendez’s campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate.
August 15, 2018
A federal judge today sided with environmental, landowner and Tribal plaintiffs in their challenge to the Trump administration’s approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
August 15, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today the Department of the Interior released draft management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. The proposed plans leave most of Bears Ears without protections, and open significant portions of Grand Staircase to dirty fuel development. The management plans are moving forward for public comment despite current legal challenges to the Trump administration’s illegal actions to shrink the monuments.
August 15, 2018
Yesterday, a coalition of clean water advocates filed two emergency motions to stop the continued construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
August 15, 2018
Today, the Department of the Interior received limited industry interest in yet another offshore drilling lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The sale offered up all available, unleased areas of the Gulf for oil and gas leasing and received bids on just 1 percent of the tracts up for auction. Today’s sale is the third in a series of similarly lackluster sales.