August 18, 2026
SEATTLE — Today, the USDA Forest Service released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the proposed repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, with a 30-day public comment period opening Aug. 20.
Press Releases
August 18, 2026
Helena, MT - Today, the Trump administration announced it is repealing the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This measure conserved more than 58 million acres of National Forest lands by preventing road building, hardrock mining, oil and gas and industrial logging, and was one of the most popular rules in U.S. history after an extensive public process to generate more than 1.6 million comments.
August 18, 2026
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Duke Energy released its latest long-range energy plan, which proposes two additional gas plants and extends costly coal plant operations based on speculative data center developments, according to its own documents released last Friday.
August 17, 2026
EL PASO, TX — Following widespread bipartisan outrage, Donald Trump’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced Monday that the agency is temporarily pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park as he visits the site this week. Scott did not say how long the pause would last or commit to canceling the project.
August 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The public was forced to navigate five separate comment processes across three federal agencies as the Department of the Interior launched a sweeping review of longstanding policies protecting millions of acres of America’s wildest public lands.
August 14, 2026
The long-held rule is a commonsense protection against sonic booms and unnecessary climate emissions
August 14, 2026
BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas — After years of organizing by residents and community groups based in Freeport, Surfside, Jones Creek, and surrounding Gulf Coast communities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has vacated a critical federal approval for the Texas GulfLink crude oil export terminal, dealing a major blow to the controversial project.
August 14, 2026
Phoenix, Ariz. – On Friday, the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter shared with Gov. Katie Hobbs's office about 2,000 comments that were submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last week opposing the Desert Southwest Pipeline.
August 13, 2026
San Francisco, CA - Today dozens of people representing public interest groups in the Affordable Energy Campaign (AEC) rallied outside the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and held a press conference calling on Gov. Newsom, lawmakers and regulators to address the broken utility system that burdens working people and communities with wildfire costs.