July 10, 2018
Washington, DC -- Today, the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, and Environmental Defense Fund filed a request to EPA to withdraw its decision to cease enforcing the glider truck requirements.
Press Releases
July 10, 2018
Denver, CO-- According to AP, today, in response to mounting public pressure against the sellout of public lands for dirty fuels, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that the agency will defer the lease sale near Great Sand Dunes National Park and in the Huerfano River Valley Community until it consults further with the Navajo Nation.
July 10, 2018
WASHINGTON DC-- District of Columbia Councilmember Mary Cheh, the Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Environment, introduced a comprehensive climate protection and clean energy package today.
July 10, 2018
BOSTON-- The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change hosted a briefing today to discuss the findings of The Applied Economics Clinic and Sustainable Energy Advantage report which focuses on the impacts of the major electric sector provisions in the 2018 Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future bill which passed the Massachusetts Senate unanimously last month.
July 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Brett Kavanaugh to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s recently vacated seat on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Kavanaugh was added to Trump’s short list of nominees by extremist right-wing organizations who selected candidates who will pave the way for attacks on the environment, dismantling worker protections, gutting Roe v. Wade, and criminalizing women.
July 9, 2018
CONCORD, N.H. -- On Monday, July 9, 2018, the City Council of Concord, New Hampshire voted to establish a goal of transitioning the city to 100 percent clean and renewable energy. The state capital becomes the largest city in New Hampshire to make this commitment.
July 9, 2018
Only one day in, acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist, is already accumulating his share of scandal and controversy as he pursues Scott Pruitt’s corrupt agenda of eliminating safeguards that protect Americans from air and water pollution.
July 5, 2018
Today, President Donald Trump tweeted that he accepted scandal plagued EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation.
July 5, 2018
New reporting from POLITICO found that Utah Governor Gary Herbert copied talking points provided by an oil and gas industry lobbyist nearly verbatim in a letter sent to the EPA requesting an exemption from safeguards that control the amount of life-threatening smog pollution in local air.
July 5, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, dozens of organizations, including Sierra Club, sent a letter to Senators urging them to oppose Ronald Mortenson’s nomination for Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (RPM). Mortensen’s extremist, anti-immigrant views and his lack of any relevant experience should disqualify him from overseeing U.S.