Jackson, WY — A conservation coalition filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today, asking a judge to order the agency to issue a long-overdue plan to phase out elk feeding on the Jackson Hole National Elk Refuge.
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BOSTON, MA -- On Saturday, over 50 municipal officials gathered at Framingham State University for the culminating event of a year-long series of Climate Leadership Summits organized by the Massachusetts Sierra Club.
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Washington, DC-- Today, despite the House and Senate passage of a resolution to overturn Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, the President vetoed the bill. The move comes one day after the Senate passed the resolution and after several lawsuits, including the Sierra Club’s, challenged the constitutionality of the declaration. Several members of the Republican party in the House and Senate made clear their disagreement with Trump’s decision.
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Texas LNG fracked gas export terminal. Texas LNG is one of three fracked gas export terminals proposed for the Rio Grande Valley, the cumulative impacts of which could be devastating for local communities and industries like eco-tourism and shrimping that rely on a pristine coastline.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of the Interior has finalized changes to the sage grouse management plans previously negotiated by a number of western states. The new plans will overturn these carefully-crafted conservation plans in exchange for rules that will allow the oil and gas industry to disrupt and destroy the habitat of the rapidly declining greater sage-grouse.
In response, Sierra Club Senior Campaign Representative Emily Lande released the following statement:
Vectren customers and community organizations came together to call on Vectren, a CenterPoint Company, to scrap their plans to construct an 850 MW gas plant and go back to the drawing board in their 2019 20-Year Energy Plan.
Washington, DC-- Today, in a 59-41 vote, the Senate passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s National Emergency declaration-- days after the House passed the companion measure. Sens. Udall (D-NM) and Collins (R-ME) introduced the bipartisan resolution aimed at stopping the president from taking money from critical government programs to construct more border wall.