April 25, 2018
Washington, DC -- President Trump recently announced the end of protections for Liberians seeking asylum in the United States and granted stay by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
Press Releases
April 25, 2018
Today, in the White House Press Briefing, Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders how EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt still has a job and how his behavior is corresponds with Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” given his many ethical scandals
April 25, 2018
The House today is expected to take up the Salmon Extinction Act, HR 3144. The bill will roll back critical protections for endangered salmon, derail salmon recovery alternatives, and undermine bedrock environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act. Thirteen wild salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia and Snake River Basin are currently at risk of extinction, none of which have recovered under the inadequate plans the Salmon Extinction Act would continue.
April 25, 2018
A crowd of activists rallied today outside of a meeting of Bank of America’s shareholders and executives to call on the Charlotte-based bank to drop its financing of dirty and destructive fossil fuel projects.
April 25, 2018
Vectren Corp. of Evansville and CenterPoint Energy of Houston, Texas, announced a merger agreement.
April 24, 2018
73 scientists say #NoGrizHunt.
April 24, 2018
Residents from Central Illinois testified before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) yesterday in strong opposition to proposed rollbacks to federal coal ash pollution rules. USEPA Head Scott Pruitt’s new proposal to weaken the already modest federal clean water protections from toxic coal ash endangers the health of the 1.5 million children that live near coal ash storage sites. Illinois has seventy-five coal ash impoundments across the state. These sites contain some of the most toxic chemicals on earth - like arsenic, lead, mercury, and chromium - which raise the risk for cancer, heart disease, and stroke, and can inflict permanent brain damage on children. Proposed rollbacks not only cede the authority to monitor pollution to polluters themselves, but also will curtail local residents’ ability to hold companies accountable for damaging local water supplies.
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club began airing a TV ad on Fox and Friends calling for Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. The ads will air on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. The ad focuses on Pruitt’s swamp-like behavior including lavish spending and the Republican backlash.
April 24, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY-- The Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a decision today siding with Sierra Club and Oklahoma Energy Results in an appeal of a decision by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The Supreme Court agreed with Sierra Club that the Commission lacked authority to approve a half-billion dollars in retrofit costs by OG&E in its aging coal plants without first assessing the impact on customers rates.
April 24, 2018
Dominion Energy is trying to suppress efforts to thoroughly evaluate construction of its Atlantic Coast Pipeline by claiming the delays will cost taxpayers money - despite the fact that Dominion wants to pass the costs of the pipeline on to ratepayers.