March 19, 2019
Yesterday, the Trump administration sent a spending request to Congress calling for steep cuts to several research programs focused on PFAS and the neurotoxin lead.
Press Releases
March 20, 2019
BOSTON, MA -- On Monday, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) released its final Focus40 Plan, highlighting the process and priorities to get the MBTA’s transportation system to meet the region’s needs by 2040. Unfortunately, the plan makes no commitments to investing in electric buses beyond service testing of five electric buses and a pilot.
March 18, 2019
local residents headed to Citizens Square to deliver over 1,000 petitions to Mayor Tom Henry, urging him to sign on to a letter supporting a transition to renewable energy for Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) customers. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Dennis Tyler, along with a majority of city council members in Fort Wayne, South Bend and Muncie have responded to constituent requests by signing letters asking Indiana Michigan Power to invest in renewable energy in its 20-year energy plan.
March 18, 2019
NEW YORK CITY, NY -- In a recently released newsletter, New York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) highlighted that the electric vehicles in its city fleet -- compared to vehicles fueled by oil and gas -- are providing dramatic cost savings for the City due to lower maintenance costs.
March 18, 2019
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.
March 18, 2019
Asset managers like BlackRock are overlooked contributors to the climate crisis. Although pension funds and banks are familiar targets of climate activism, asset managers play a unique and distinctly problematic role in the climate crisis.
March 18, 2019
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.
March 17, 2019
Sierra Club Supporters Testify Against Rollback of Mercury Safeguard’s Legal Foundation
March 15, 2019
March 15, 2019
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.