WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, President Trump said that “Maybe he won't be so acting so long” in regards to Andrew Wheeler after complimenting his job performance. As acting EPA Administrator, from rollbacks of major clean air safeguards, to meeting with Big polluters, to misleading and inaccurate statements, Wheeler has moved to harm public health every three days.
Today, the Huffington Post reported that fossil fuel lobbyist and current EPA air boss Bill Wehrum was visiting with Hunton Andrews Kurth, the fossil fuel lobbying firm that previously employed him, just one month after starting at EPA.
Last week, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors voted to set a default of 100 percent renewable electricity when the county launches service through the Clean Power Alliance in 2019. Clean Power Alliance is a Southern California community choice energy provider that will procure cleaner power at lower costs than investor-owned utility Southern California Edison (SCE).
After hearing from nearly 1,000 Arizona parents and science supporters---as well as from local science teachers and other community leaders--the Arizona State Board of Education voted today to re-integrate accurate climate and evolutionary science into the state’s K-12 science standards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, on twitter, Donald Trump claimed that the United States has the “cleanest air in the world - BY FAR!” using a World Health Organization map of particulate pollution. However, just last week, Trump’s EPA disbanded the EPA science panel that reviews particulate pollution, and Trump has gutted several clean air standards that protect from particulate matter pollution such as the clean car standards, Clean Power Plan, and glider truck rule. These rollbacks stand to hurt Trump’s voter base the most.
Pittsburgh, PA -- Late Friday, at the request of a coalition of clean water advocates including the Sierra Club and Appalachian Mountain Advocates, the Pittsburgh District of the Army Corps of Engineers suspended a third permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) must have in order to build through waterways in Wetzel and Harrison Counties in West Virginia.
MIAMI, FLORIDA: The Florida Chapter of the Sierra Club today announced its endorsement of Mary Barzee Flores for Congress in Florida’s 25th district.
"We are pleased to announce today that the Sierra Club officially endorses Mary Barzee Flores
for election," said David Harbeitner, Sierra Fla. Political Chairman. "We are confident that she will continue work to protect Florida families’ health, air and water, and build a clean energy economy that works for Floridians.”
This weekend, The New York Times revealed that the Trump Administration is planning a sweeping attack that would undermine current civil rights protections transgender people across the country.
Las Vegas, Nevada (October 18, 2018) - Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.
Las Vegas, Nevada (October 18, 2018) - Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.