July 29, 2025
Senator Richard Durbin and Senator Reverend Warnock announced the introduction of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4).
Press Releases
July 29, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration announced it is rolling back the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean vehicle standards for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles.
July 29, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, in its most direct assault thus far on the movement to mitigate the climate crisis, the Trump administration will formally propose a plan to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding. If finalized, this action will devastate the EPA’s ability to carry out its primary authority to limit climate pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.
July 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a confirmation vote on Donald Trump’s controversial pick to oversee the U.S. Forest Service.
July 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration has announced a controversial reorganization of a critical federal agency.
July 25, 2025
Today, Representatives Bruce Westerman (R-AK) and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced permitting legislation that would dangerously restrict reviews of fossil fuel projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and would limit the ability of communities to legally challenge a project.
July 24, 2025
Republican-dominated commission tells federal court it won’t defend rule as litigation proceeds
July 24, 2025
Today, nine public advocacy groups led by the Sierra Club and Earthjustice filed a petition for review at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in response to the Department of Energy’s unlawful and unreasonable extension of the J.H. Campbell coal plant, and the department’s failure to respond to the groups’ earlier request for rehearing on the department’s emergency order.
July 24, 2025
Oakland, CA — The Sierra Club has filed its latest FOIA-related lawsuit against the Trump Administration, this time seeking to hold the Department of Transportation accountable for its failure to respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests for DOT’s records related to withholding of federal funds and communications with external parties.
July 23, 2025
Washington, D.C. – On the same day that the Department of Energy cancelled a loan for a shovel-ready transmission project that would improve grid reliability and national security, the Trump Administration released its latest Executive Order