Annapolis, MD -- On Monday, Maryland took a step closer to its goal of getting 300,000 electrical vehicles on its roads by 2025 when utilities won state approval to support the addition of 5,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, engage in EV education and outreach to their customers, and promote management of new EV electric load.
Today, Bloomberg News reported that the Trump administration is ordering dozens of federal employees back to work in order to fast-track plans to sell off America’s public waters for offshore drilling.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, a federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration’s attempt to add a xenophobic citizenship question to the 2020 Census is illegal. The Commerce Department announced the addition of the citizenship status question to the Census last March in an effort to intimidate and discourage noncitizens and their families from responding to the census, a move that would affect the total count of Americans. Without an accurate count of every living person in America, the incomplete data will skew the drawing of political districts, the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives, and the distribution of federal funding for local communities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Starting today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing for William Barr’s nomination as Attorney General. Barr’s troubling record on the environment includes serving on the board of directors for Dominion Energy since 2009 and an expansive view of the Presidential prerogatives, that could threaten both the transparency of the Executive Branch and the consistent enforcement of federal laws protecting the public. This is particularly concerning given the Trump Administration’s affinity for favoring corporate polluters and the extent to which former fossil fuel executives and lobbyists hold positions of authority within the Administration. Barr also has a problematic record on immigration, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and women’s rights. If confirmed, Barr will take over oversight of the Russia investigation, which he criticized in a 20-page memo to the justice department.
DENVER - In a blow to the health and safety of Coloradans, the Colorado Supreme Court today reversed a Court of Appeals Decision on the highly anticipated "Martinez case."
In response to today's news, Jim Alexee, Director of the Colorado Sierra Club, released the following statement:
This morning, a group of local Indigenous leaders joined representatives from the Gwich’in Steering Committee for an in-person delivery of more than 100,000 letters from across the country to SAExploration’s Houston office urging the company to stay out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. SAExploration is the only company that has applied to do destructive seismic exploration in the refuge’s coastal plain, with plans to begin as soon as next month.
This morning, multinational investment bank Barclays announced a new energy policy that significantly restricts the bank’s financing for the exploration or extraction of oil and gas in the Arctic.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club will begin running an aggressive digital ad campaign on Facebook in Arizona urging people to call Senator Martha McSally and tell her to end the shutdown by voting for a clean spending bill without funding for the border wall.
Washington, DC – Today, the leaders of nine major environmental and public health organizations delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jon Barrasso (R-WY) demanding a postponement of Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s confirmation hearing until President Donald Trump’s wasteful government shutdown has ended.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House passed HR 266 which would fund the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of the Interior (DOI) through September 30, 2019. During Donald Trump’s government shutdown the EPA has stopped drinking water system inspection, power plant inspection, chemical facility inspection, superfund cleanup , inspections of hazardous waste management sites and chemical facilities, reviews of pesticides, and processing Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIA).