WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a 73-25 vote, the United States Senate overwhelmingly passed the Great American Outdoors Act on June 17. It now awaits consideration by the House of Representatives. The bipartisan bill would permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, providing funding for conservation and public recreation projects across the country. It would also address the nearly $12 billion maintenance backlog in national parks and other public lands.
El director ejecutivo del Sierra Club, Michael Brune, y la directora del Capítulo de Georgia, Jessica Morehead, emitieron la siguiente declaración en respuesta al asesinato de Rayshard Brooks, de 27 años, quien fue muerto a tiros por un policía en Atlanta el 12 de junio.
Oakland, CA -- Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune and Jessica Morehead, Chapter Director of the Sierra Club’s Georgia Chapter, released the following statement in response to the murder of Rayshard Brooks, 27, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Atlanta on June 12, 2020. Throughout the last 2 months,the Sierra Club has firmly condemned police brutality and white supremacy, including the violent, racist killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. In July of 2019, the Sierra Club joined forces with a coalition of environmental justice and national environmental groups to release a just and equitable national climate platform that centers racial, climate and environmental justice to improve the public health and well-being of all communities.
La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos dictó hoy que los trabajadores LGBTQ están protegidos en virtud del Título VII de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964.
SAN DIEGO -- Late last week, the Sierra Club and six other environmental groups won an important case involving the County of San Diego’s Climate Action Plan.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that LGBTQ workers are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that limited the U.S. Forest Service’s authority to issue a permit to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP)
Hop Hopkins, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Sierra Club is out with a powerful piece in Sierra Magazine detailing the inextricable connection between the climate crisis and white supremacy. In the piece, he details the intersectionality between the white colonizermentality, slavery, ongoing structural racism, the modern plundering of our planet, and the murder of George Floyd by Minneappolis police.
Washington, DC— Today as the country faces an uprising for racial justice and ongoing pandemic, the Trump administration’s Department of the Interior released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in efforts to strip critical protections in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of four organizations from across the progressive spectrum released the following statement today demonstrating unity and support for protecting Black lives and protestors who have taken to the streets. The following statement can be attributed to Service Employees International Union International President Mary Kay Henry, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson, Planned Parenthood Acting President Alexis McGill Johnson and Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune: