June 22, 2018
State regulators today approved a $14 mandatory monthly rate hike for Duke Energy Carolinas’ customers and will force them to shoulder millions in costs for the utility’s statewide toxic coal ash cleanup.
Press Releases
Indigenous and Environmental Groups Respond to BP Endorsement of Trump’s Arctic Refuge Drilling Plan
June 22, 2018
BP America Chairman and President Susan Dio gave the keynote address at a luncheon put on by the Alaska Resource Development Council, in which she expressed BP’s support for the Trump administration’s plan to sell off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
June 22, 2018
Fearing a public relations nightmare, Scott Pruitt’s EPA and the Trump administration decided to withhold a study for 6 months that detailed drinking water contamination at more than 125 Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps bases from toxic perfluoroalkyls (PFAS) exposure. Before the report release, the EPA had been assuring military members that higher levels of PFAS exposure were safe, but the new report details the safe levels of PFAS are much lower, meaning the more than 3 million military members, military families and veterans who get their drinking water from from Department of Defense systems are all at greater risk.
June 21, 2018
Salt Lake City, UT -- The House Natural Resources Committee today will host a hearing on the Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018. The bill has a unique opportunity to implement a precedent-setting process and notable protections for Utah’s public lands that continue to experience significant roll backs. However, as it stands, the bill would lessen protections and worsen the current status of lands protected. A committee vote is anticipated before the end of Congress.
June 21, 2018
In an inevitable development, a mining company has laid claim to public lands within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
June 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of ongoing litigation, the Sierra Club has demanded that the EPA search Scott Pruitt’s personal email accounts for work-related emails, or certify clearly and definitively that the Administrator has never used personal email for work purposes. The demand comes on the heels of a successfully litigated Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s email and other communications with all persons and parties outside the Executive Branch. These facts were first reported in Politico early this morning.
June 21, 2018
Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of a crucial permit that the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) needs to build across waterways.
June 21, 2018
Last night, in response to public pressure to protect communities from the dangers of neighborhood oil drilling, the Culver City Council voted unanimously to begin the process to study the phase-out of oil drilling in the Inglewood Oil Field.
June 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Republicans just passed their version of the 2018 farm bill-- a package that weakens the SNAP anti-hunger program and includes provisions undermining bedrock environmental safeguards for clean water, wildlife and forests.
In response, Athan Manuel, director of public lands protection for Sierra Club issued the following statement:
June 21, 2018
Earthjustice, on behalf of three conservation groups, sued the Trump administration today for failing to complete a legally required consultation about offshore drilling’s harms to threatened and endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico.