July 27, 2018
DETROIT, MI - Today, The Michigan Sierra Club Independent Action PAC announced a new six-figure mail campaign in support of progressive candidate Gretchen Whitmer’s campaign in the Democratic primary for Governor of Michigan.
Press Releases
July 26, 2018
Washington, DC-- Today, the House passed a FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In conference, lawmakers successfully stripped a number of harmful provisions from the bill that would have threatened protections for public lands, forests and imperiled wildlife-- but the version still includes a rider that significantly undermines the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).
In response, Jordan Giaconia, federal policy associate at Sierra Club issued the following statement:
July 26, 2018
Washington, DC -- Tonight, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler reversed course and withdrew EPA’s No Action Assurance on the glider truck rule. Agreeing with environmental groups’ and states’ claims in the challenges filed last week in the D. C.
July 26, 2018
Detroit, MI -- Today, the Sierra Club held a People’s Hearing in Detroit, opposing Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s and NHSTA’s Acting Administrator King widely expected proposed rollback of the clean car standards. Dozens of Michiganders attended, including former EPA and auto industry employees, speaking out strongly in support of the standards.
July 26, 2018
The EPA’s new associate administrator for the Office of Policy, sent a letter to FERC rolling back suggestions from EPA on how FERC might evaluate the environmental impacts of fracked gas pipelines
July 26, 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. - Acting EPA Administrator and recent coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is under scrutiny for possibly violating the Trump administration’s ethics pledge and other ethics promises.
July 26, 2018
Today, four clean energy groups, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, and Western Resource Advocates, announced their opposition to Question 3 on Nevada’s ballot this upcoming election. Question 3 would deregulate the state’s electricity market and could disrupt the state’s progress toward a clean energy future.
July 26, 2018
Yesterday evening, the comment period closed on FERC's review of their 1999 policy statement pertaining to pipeline reviews. Members and supporters of the Sierra Club submitted more than 25,000 comments.
July 25, 2018
Washington, DC— Today, the House Appropriations Committee marked up a budget that includes $5 billion for a border wall— the most money that’s appeared in an appropriations bill to date.
July 25, 2018
Monday’s report in the Washington Post further proves that the Trump administration’s national monument review has been a predetermined exercise from the very beginning, designed to prioritize extractive uses of protected public lands and waters. It is clear that the Department of the Interior repeatedly ignored science, public opinion, local economic benefits, cultural resources and all other available evidence to arrive at recommendations to eliminate protections for national monuments.