Grand Canyon, AZ—Yesterday, the National Park Service announced plans to partially open Grand Canyon National Park this weekend. A decision to irresponsibly reopen the park comes in the midst of a pandemic that is devastating the nearby Navajo Nation, which has announced 147 new cases and 16 more deaths, and as deaths due to COVID-19 continue to rise.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the environmental and public health burdens facing Native Americans across the country and the severe lack of federal funding for support and services.
TUCSON, Arizona— The Trump administration’s latest border wall plan, which would wall off the last jaguar migration paths and bulldoze Arizona’s Sky Island mountains, has drawn opposition from thousands of people across the country.
Oakland, CA -- Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement on the murder of Breonna Taylor.
DENVER— Conservation groups sued Arch Coal today over illegal pollution at the company’s West Elk coal mine in western Colorado. The mine is the single-largest industrial source of methane pollution in the state.
Un devastador informe de E2 y ACORE revela que la industria de energía limpia perdió casi medio millón de empleos en abril, además de los 100.000 que perdió en marzo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A devastating new report out this afternoon from E2 and ACORE showing that the clean energy industry lost nearly a half million jobs in April and over 100,000 in March. Before the crisis, clean energy had been one of our fastest growing industries, employing almost 3.4 million people by the end of 2019, and now it’s struggling.
Today, a team of seasoned political strategists, content creators, digital organizers, activists, and communications operatives are launching Climate Power 2020 — a campaign dedicated to changing the politics of climate in 2020.
Los líderes demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes presentaron la propuesta de ley HEROES, un paquete de ayuda contra COVID-19 tras la aprobación en marzo de otra iniciativa de ayuda conocida como CARES Act.
Washington, DC — Today, Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives introduced the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or the HEROES Act, a COVID-19 relief package following up on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed in March.