Los incendios que afectan a toda California se están amainando y se han eliminado las órdenes de evacuación en varias partes del estado, aunque no en todas. El humo de los incendios continúa creando condiciones insalubres en todo el estado y el Oeste del país —un riesgo aún mayor para la salud pública en medio de una pandemia.
Current wildfires burning across California are slowly coming under control and evacuation orders have been lifted in several parts of the state, though not all. Smoke from the fires continues to create dangerously unhealthy air across the state and the West-- an increased health risk in the midst of the pandemic. These fires in California killed seven people and burned hundreds of homes and businesses. Dozens of large fires continue to burn across the West, including several in Colorado. While fire is a natural part of the landscape, the climate crisis has lengthened the fire season and raised the risk of unnaturally large and more dangerous fires across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last week, reports emerged that the new acting director of the National Park Service, Margaret Everson, told regional directors that staff shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic should not limit public access to national parks. The Trump administration has repeatedly encouraged Americans to travel to national parks during the pandemic.
NORTH CAROLINA -- Yesterday, after years of incinerating PFAS waste, the federal government acknowledged the hazards and announced a technical challenge to design a safer way to destroy toxic fire fighting foam. The challenge will reward new technologies that can destroy at least 99 percent of the PFAS in fire fighting foam, despite EPA typically requiring even greater levels of breakdown for other highly toxic wastes. Due to PFAS chemicals’ intense toxicity and persistence, 99 percent destruction is a low bar and wastes would still contain far more PFAS than can be safely emitted into air or waterways.
MVP asked FERC for two more years to complete the project
La Comisión Especial sobre la Crisis Climática del Senado emitió hoy su reporte titulado “Razones para la Acción Climática: Construir una Economía Limpia para el Pueblo Estadounidense”, el cual detalla un plan de los demócratas del Senado para atacar la crisis climática alcanzando la meta de cero emisiones para el 2050, además de incrementar las inversiones climáticas en comunidades vulnerables y en desventaja.
WASHINGTON D.C.- The Senate Special Committee on the Climate Crisis today released The Case for Climate Action: Building a Clean Economy for the American People. This report details a plan by Senate Democrats to address the climate crisis by reaching a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as increased climate investments in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. The report was produced without any engagement from Senate Republicans.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six groups filed a lawsuit Monday, August 24 in U.S. District Court charging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management with breaking the law by advancing a new management plan for Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve that would give the vast majority of the nation’s largest unit of public land to oil companies. This effort to expand fossil fuel exploitation in the western Arctic would increase harmful climate impacts, diminish public health, degrade land, water and air, and encroach on long-protected areas vital to wildlife and people.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As multiple extreme weather events converge across the country and the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the Trump administration is planning to auction off more than half a million acres of public lands for oil and gas drilling.
El director ejecutivo del Sierra Club, Michael Brune, y los copresidentes del Grupo Southeast Gateway de Wisconsin del Sierra Club, Tom Ritkowski y Laura Buska, emitieron la siguiente declaración tras el acribillamiento de Jacob Blake por parte de oficiales del Departamento de Policía de Kenosha