June 18, 2019
Augusta, ME -- Last night, the Maine Legislature passed LD 1494 which increases the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 80 percent by 2030 and 100 percent by 2050.
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June 18, 2019
Albany, NY — Early this morning, the New York State Senate passed the strongest climate legislation in the nation as part of a three-way agreement with the Assembly and Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s road to passage was the culmination of a multi-year effort, deeply rooted in climate justice, and widely supported and led by frontline community groups, environmental justice organizations, labor, environmental organizations including the Sierra Club and everyday New Yorkers who made their voices heard.
June 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump will officially announce his candidacy for President of the United States for the 2020 election cycle. This week, Trump will finalize his rollback of the Clean Power Plan, life-saving climate action that constituted the first-ever safeguard from carbon pollution for existing power plants, and replaced it with the Dirty Power Plan, a polluter giveaway that will lead to the deaths of 1,400 Americans every year by the Trump EPA’s own admission. So far during his presidency Trump has rolled back protections from coal ash, the clean car standards, the Clean Power Plan, protections from methane pollution, and withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement -- and that’s just a sample of his anti-public health, anti-climate, and anti-environment agenda.
June 18, 2019
Safety Harbor, FL – The City Commission of Safety Harbor voted unanimously to become Florida’s ninth city to adopt a resolution setting a 100 percent clean, renewable energy community-wide goal, committing the City to plan for the complete elimination of all fossil fuels in the electricity sector by 2035 for municipal operations and 2050 community-wide. The resolution creates an inclusive community planning process to guide a transition for both municipal operations as well as the entire community.
June 18, 2019
Donald Trump is kicking off his reelection campaign with events in Orlando and Miami, Florida today. Here’s some of what his campaign won’t tell you: Trump is hell bent on making the people of Florida suffer the ravages of the climate crisis, and has sought for years to do everything he can to open up Florida's coasts and beaches to the ravages of oil spills and drilling. He’s also endangering the people and places of Florida in countless other ways with his destructive anti-environmental agenda.
June 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled to reject a challenge to a lower court ruling that found Virginia Republicans racially gerrymandered 11 districts across the state back in 2011. With today’s decision, African American voters in the affected districts will be able to vote under a constitutionally-legal map for the first time in eight years.
June 16, 2019
Seattle, WA-- This weekend, advocates across Washington gathered in several places to protest the Miami Seaquarium’s capture of the orca Tokitae, who is native to the Salish Sea and sacred to the Lummi Nation. The Lummi finalized their Totem Pole Journey with stops across the state-- a 23-day trip from Miami to Seattle to raise awareness about Tokitae’s situation. Tokitae is the only Salish orca who survived a cruel and massive capture of 40 whales in these waters years ago for sea circuses and parks.
June 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, in an interview with ABC, Donald Trump said he may not alert the FBI if foreign governments offered damaging information against 2020 Presidential opponents during the upcoming election. Trump claimed that he’s never called the FBI despite working extensively with the FBI in the 1980s and 90s. Trump then doubled down on his statement on Twitter. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report found at least 140 contacts between Trump and his associates and Russian nationals, WikiLeaks, and their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.
June 13, 2019
New Orleans, La. - Today, the Fifth Circuit Court to hear oral argument from the Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association on whether the Clean Air Act’s regional haze provisions require two of Louisiana's largest sources of air pollution to reduce visibility and air pollution.
June 13, 2019
Background- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Sierra Club, and Southern Border Communities Coalition won a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration from using military funds to build 50-55 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico.