January 4, 2019
New Report Shows Coal Plant Highly Uneconomic
Press Releases
January 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump said he would allow the government shutdown to continue for years. The shutdown has 800,000 people going without pay, and has put our National Parks into a state of disarray.
January 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, Democratic House leaders, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Taskforce Chair Representative John Sarbanes, introduced H.R. 1, the For the People Act. This landmark democracy reform package is designed to create nationwide automatic and same day voter registration, restore the Voting Rights Act to its full power, put an end to partisan gerrymandering, strengthen ethics laws to curb the undue influence of corporate polluters, and fix our broken campaign finance system, among other initiatives.
January 3, 2019
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, as a part of the rules package passed in the House of Representatives, now under Democratic control, Congress will establish a Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Previously, Speaker Pelosi announced that Rep. Kathy Castor will be the chair of the committee, which will focus on “policies, strategies, and innovations to achieve substantial and permanent reductions in pollution and other activities that contribute to the climate crisis.”
January 3, 2019
Today, Nancy Pelosi made history by being re-elected Speaker of the House. The Sierra Club previously announced its support of Nancy Pelosi to be next Speaker of the House of Representatives in the first endorsement the organization ever made for a House leadership race.
January 2, 2019
Quite a bit happened over the holidays. Donald Trump rolled back the Mercury Air Toxic Standards which protect young children from toxic emissions spewed by coal plants, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke left office in disgrace, oh, and the government was and remains shut down, leaving our national parks without park rangers, gutting the EPA of over 13,000 employees and forcing the few who remain to work without pay.
January 2, 2019
Prompted by mounting investigations into Ryan Zinke’s conduct, Donald Trump announced last month that today would be Zinke’s final day at the Department of the Interior.
January 2, 2019
The Maryland Board of Public Works (Board) voted 3-0 to deny a crucial easement to the fracked gas Potomac Pipeline
December 28, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed plans to ignore the health and environmental benefits of clean air and water safeguards while prioritizing corporate polluter profits as part of a planned roll-back to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). MATS protects Americans from pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants. These safeguards, which EPA finalized in 2012 with compliance deadlines that ended in 2016, drastically curtailed the emission of dangerous toxic pollution that poisons wildlife, contaminates seafood, and threatens the health of pregnant women and young children.
December 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The US Environmental Protection Agency has stayed open these first days of Trump's government shutdown, running on surplus funds. However, Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced that the agency would run out of funds and need to shut down Friday, 12/28 at midnight.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement: