Las Vegas, NV-- Today, the US Forest Service issued their final Environmental Assessment on Nevada’s Ruby Mountains-- denying the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) request to offer parcels for leasing in the landscape. The decision comes after after an outpour of public opposition and restricts BLM from offering the sale of parcels in the Ruby Mountains for oil and gas development.
In response, Christian Gerlach of the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign released the following statement:
Today, Representative Rob Bishop, the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, said the bold ideas in the Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis and inequity are “tantamount to genocide” to rural citizens. This comes as Washington Republicans, led by Donald Trump, continue their absurd and dangerous rhetoric on climate change and climate action.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Senate voted 53-46 along party lines to confirm Neomi Rao to the D.C. Circuit Court. Rao has been widely-criticized by for her extreme and dangerous views on climate, sexual assault, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights. Rao is Trump’s 36th judge confirmed to appeals courts.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Natural Resources Committee took the first steps to hold the Trump administration accountable for its illegal actions to shrink two national monuments and to open up millions of new acres of America’s public lands to dirty fuel development. The Committee heard testimony from Tribal leaders, scientists, conservationists, representatives of outdoor businesses and land management experts on the negative cultural, environmental, economic, paleontological, and archeological consequences of monument reduction.
Today, March 12, the New Mexico legislature passed the Energy Transition Act (SB 489), a bill that will make electricity generation 100 percent carbon-free by 2045 from the state’s investor-owned utilities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife heard expert testimony on the state of wildlife in the United States. Wildlife in every part of the nation face new threats from the effects of climate change on habitat, the Trump administration’s plans to gut the protection of the Endangered Species Act, and continued efforts to construct a wall along the U.S. Southern border which fragments migration corridors and increases flooding, resulting in more destruction of habitat.
Maryland is on the brink of becoming the first state to ban expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam food containers, as the State House passed a bill that would ban restaurants, grocery stores, and other food providers from using foam food containers because of their harmful impact on the environment.
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11, 2019 – Grassroots environmental organization Sierra Club, one of the most enduring and influential in the United States, is providing an opportunity for its more than 3.5 million members and supporters to go solar with SunPower (NASDAQ:SPWR).
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler confirmed that the Trump administration will move to revoke California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act. The waiver allows the state to set stronger fuel efficiency standards. This all comes as the Trump administration moves to roll back the clean car standards for light-duty vehicles this spring.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, a Shell executive said that electricity could squeeze out oil and gas as the main source of fuel for transportation in the next twenty years, and that with its own customers, the company is seeing significant shifts to electricity whenever possible. Shell has recently invested relatively small sums of money into electric vehicle charging infrastructure.