WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a confirmation hearing on Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.
During the hearing, Pearce was peppered with questions about his previous support for selling off vast swaths of federal public lands to private interests and opposition to national monuments. BLM manages approximately 245 million acres of public surface land and an additional 700 million acres of subsurface mineral rights.
House Republicans passed a pair of bills this week that would undercut energy affordability and decrease energy reliability.
DENVER - The U.S. Senate hearing for Steve Pearce, nominee for Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is triggering fierce push back from conservation and environmental groups this week.
Washington, DC – Tonight, as costs for American families continue to soar and environmental and public health protections are weakened by his administration, Donald Trump delivered the first official State of the Union address of his second term.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Loren Blackford released the following statement:
RICHMOND, Va. — Today, environmental groups filed a legal challenge to the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate extension’s water permit in Virginia.
Sierra Club, California Environmental Voters and Coalition for Clean Air demand answers on potential consumer protection violations, identity fraud that helped kill air quality standards in Southern California
Yesterday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit for the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, an interstate pipeline proposed by Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC. The Corps’ permit, issued under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, authorizes Transco to cut crossings through more than 150 streams and wetlands.
INDIANAPOLIS – Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Valley Authority stripped the public of another one of its powers, revising its National Environmental Policy Act to reduce or eliminate public involvement in TVA’s decisions.