February 26, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, during his first cabinet meeting since taking office, Donald Trump announced that he and Administrator Lee Zeldin are discussing “cutting 65 or so percent” of staff at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Press Releases
February 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries held a hearing designed to attack two of the country’s most effective wildlife protection laws.
Using the recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo as an excuse, Congressional Republicans are trying to dismantle the clear mandates of the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act.
February 26, 2025
Washington, DC – After attempts by the Administration to hide it from the American public for days, the Washington Post has reported that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is urging Donald Trump to further undermine bedrock environmental law and stri
February 25, 2025
Washington, DC – Tonight, House Republicans adopted a FY2025 Budget Resolution that makes dangerous cuts to essential services and paves the way for huge handouts to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
February 21, 2025
Denver, CO - Today the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) voted to approve new rules implementing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oil and gas methane reduction requirements. The Regulation 7 rulemaking requires operators to eliminate methane-emitting pneumatic devices at oil and gas sites throughout the state and prioritizes reductions in areas that are violating ozone pollution standards. Colorado is the first state to incorporate these provisions into its state methane plan—due to the EPA by March 2026.
February 21, 2025
Washington, DC – Early this morning, Senate Republicans adopted a FY2025 Budget Resolution that makes dangerous cuts to essential services and paves the way for huge handouts to billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.
In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement:
February 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, a high-ranking member of the Trump administration confirmed it will place conditions on California wildfire aid.
February 21, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club called on Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin to publicly release the EPA’s recommendation on whether to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate climate pollution under the federal Clean Air Act. Trump’s dangerously misguided Day 1 executive order called for a 30-day review of EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding, which the agency says was submitted to the White House by the deadline of Wednesday of this week.
February 21, 2025
HARTFORD, Conn. – The Connecticut Department of Administrative Services (DAS) has selected a fossil fuel replacement for the state-owned Capitol Area System in Hartford.
February 20, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late Thursday night, Senate Republicans voted to back co-presidents Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s hasty firing of national park rangers and wildfire prevention workers, among other land management staff.