The Trump administration released its Unified Agenda, a timeline of rollbacks it is hoping to achieve by the end of the term. The agenda provides a timeline for finalizing attacks on methane and PFAS pollution protections to the dirty power scam, the clean car standards and public lands protections.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Natural Resources Committee took up legislation to designate new wilderness in California, Washington, and Colorado. Included in the bills passed out of committee are the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act (H.R. 2199); San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act (H.R. 2215); Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act (H.R. 2250); Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (H.R. 2642); the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2019 (H.R. 2546); and the Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act (H.R. 1708).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Sierra Club launched online ads drawing attention to automaker hypocrisy and greenwashing this week during the Los Angeles Auto Show, which opens to the public on Nov. 21.
WASHINGTON, DC - The race to capture Climate Voters is steady as the three leading candidates maintain stable positions, including Joe Biden (32%, +1 point from last month) Elizabeth Warren (24%, -1 point) and Bernie Sanders (18%, -1 point). The most significant movement in the 5th round of the Morning Consult poll for the Sierra Club finds Mayor Pete Buttigieg rising to fourth place (11%, +6 points).
Minneapolis, MN— Today, The Beautywell Project and the Sierra Club’s Gender, Equity & Environment Program launched a media campaign targeting major online retailer Amazon to stop selling skin lightening creams that contain illegal levels of mercury.
NEW YORK CITY--Today, the Sierra Club with the North American Megadam Resistance Alliance, UPROSE and Indigenous community members hosted a panel discussing the negative impacts of large hydropower dams. The forum brought stories from the frontlines of Canadian megadam resistance to New York at a time when the state is considering Hydro-Quebec as part of the OneNYC plan to address climate change.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the Trump Administration’s illegal attempt to erode section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
WASHINGTON,D.C. -- Today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed the Restore Our Parks Act (S. 500), the Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act (S. 1081) and the Conservation of America’s Shoreline Terrain and Aquatic Life (COASTAL) Act out of committee.
On Thursday at 11am PT, local Baldwin Hills residents will be joined by environmental advocates to deliver thousands of petition signatures to the LA County Department of Regional Planning calling for stronger protections for communities living near the Inglewood Oil Field.
WASHINGTON, DC - Tax writers in the House of Representatives have released a package of clean energy tax credits for critical technologies which must be brought to scale. The Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act includes incentives for clean, renewable energy solutions including solar, offshore wind, battery storage, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles.