December 12, 2018
To mark Secretary Ryan Zinke’s imminent departure from the Department of the Interior, activists drove a decked-out moving truck around Washington, DC today to help pack up his scandal-plagued tenure and send him on his way.
Press Releases
December 12, 2018
Yesterday, coal lobbyist and acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler once again bowed to the whims of corporate polluters by rolling back the Waters of the U.S (WOTUS) safeguards, attacking the drinking water of 117 million people -- roughly ⅓ of all Americans.
December 11, 2018
On December 10, the Evanston City Council unanimously approved its new Climate Action and Resilience Plan, which includes a commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity supply community-wide by 2030, along with other bold goals to act on climate change. It is the first city in Illinois to make this commitment.
December 11, 2018
Washington, DC-- Today, in a 17-minute exchange with Democratic leadership at the Oval Office, President Trump said he’d be “proud” to shut down the government if he fails to get billions of dollars for his border wall. This is the latest in a long series of episodes in which the Trump Administration recklessly and dangerously attempts to push the border wall boondoggle. In the past 24 hours, the Trump administration has manufactured yet another unnecessary and facetious drama about border security.
December 11, 2018
Charleston, S.C. – Leading environmental groups sued the federal government today to prevent seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean. This extremely loud and dangerous process, which is used to search for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean’s surface, is the first step toward offshore drilling. If allowed, seismic airgun blasting would harm marine life, including whales, dolphins, fish and zooplankton – the foundation of the ocean food web.
December 11, 2018
Today, Tribal leaders from across the country were joined by members of Congress to mark the 58th anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stand with the Gwich’in Nation in opposition to destructive drilling there.
December 10, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last night, the House-Senate conference committee publicly released the conference report for the bipartisan Farm Bill. The conference report is focused on widely-supported food and farm policies and does not include destructive anti-environmental provisions included in the House version of the bill.
In response, Sierra Club Associate Legislative Director Kirin Kennedy released the following statement:
December 10, 2018
KATOWICE, POLAND -- Today, on Gender Day at the COP24 UN climate negotiations and following yesterday’s 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Sierra Club and UN Women released a new report, Women on the Move in a Changing Climate: A discussion paper on gender, climate and mobility. The report examines how gender informs the needs, challenges, roles, decision-making responsibilities, and leadership in the context of climate-related mobility.
December 10, 2018
Katowice, Poland -- Over the weekend, the Trump administration joined with Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait to vote against accepting the findings of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report during the COP24 UN Climate Negotiations. The report projects that the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis could include food shortages and droughts by 2040. The United States refused to “welcome” the scientific findings, claiming that including that language would constitute endorsing the report.
December 10, 2018
MISSION, TX-- On Friday, the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to challenge its use of unlawful waivers to expedite border wall construction in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.