Today, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released a new proposal to weaken environmental safeguards for offshore drilling in the Arctic. The plan would remove nearly half the provisions currently in place to protect Arctic waters and ecosystems from a devastating oil spill, including requirements that protect against well blowouts.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration today published a final rule containing rollbacks undercutting the role of science, transparency, and broad public input for decisions involving projects proposed on national forest land. The new rule will pave the way to increased logging, road, and pipeline construction.
VARIOUS LOCATIONS -- This inaugural conversation will bring together African and Black Diaspora from across the United States with activists in Kenya to have a discussion about the various ways in which individuals from the African Diaspora overcome the challenges and impacts of the climate crisis.
A new report from Oil Change International shows that eight major banks have upped their stakes in the controversial fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline, even though the project is years behind schedule, has nearly doubled its original budget, and is nowhere close to finished
ANNAPOLIS, MD - The Sierra Club and Maryland League of Conservation Voters today applauded the Maryland Commission on Climate Change’s new 2020 Annual Report to the Maryland General Assembly and Governor Hogan.
Washington, DC — The Sierra Club hails the announcement from the United Nations that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is now international law, following the ratification of the treaty by Honduras, the 50th country to do so.
A new shareholder resolution filed by Trillium Asset Management raises concerns about Bank of America’s refusal to rule out financing for new drilling in the Arctic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This afternoon, Montanans will join a public hearing teleconference hosted by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to register their opposition to a proposed water permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Agency is ignoring impacts to people, climate and wildlife, and relying on flawed science in its rushed, secretive process
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt issued a secretarial order that thwarts the ability to pursue projects funded by the Land and Water Conservation Fund on national public land. Some of the language of this order was drawn from amendments to the original bill that were rejected in the legislative process. This is the administration’s second attack on GAOA in as many weeks, after the Department of the Interior broke the law by failing to submit required paperwork to Congress by a November 3 deadline.