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.
Press Releases
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.
July 25, 2018
Horsham, PA – People from across the region attended and testified at a meeting and “Listening Session” hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today to call for action by government agencies to address the PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - PFAS) drinking water crisis.
July 25, 2018
Last week, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh submitted his questionnaire to Senators as a part of the confirmation process. In his answers, Kavanaugh said that he regards his 2014 dissent on EPA’s mercury standard in the White Stallion Energy Ctr., LLC v. EPA case as one of his top 10 most significant opinions. He said, "In my view, it was unreasonable — and therefore unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act — for EPA not to consider the costs imposed by regulations in determining whether such regulations were 'appropriate and necessary.'"
July 25, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is facing numerous investigations, announced that his Department will no longer require fossil fuel companies to pay into environmental restoration funds which offset development on public lands.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
July 25, 2018
After deferring a lease sale for fracking in the Greater Chaco area scheduled for March 2018 due to a need for more cultural study and consultation, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to hold another sale this December in the same region, and in expanded drilling areas, despite the fact that no additional study has occurred.
July 24, 2018
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved construction on the North Carolina section of the controversial fracked gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP).