June 21, 2018
In an inevitable development, a mining company has laid claim to public lands within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Press Releases
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.
June 21, 2018
Mission, TX-- Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill that includes $1.6 billion for border walls and increased funding for Border Patrol. If passed through Congress, the appropriations legislation fully funds 65 miles of additional border wall in Rio Grande Valley-- walling off the entire 150-mile valley from their river (except the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge where prohibition on construction is upheld).
June 21, 2018
At an event put on yesterday by the Alaska Resource Development Council, BP America Chairman and President Susan Dio expressed support for the Trump administration’s plan to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling.
June 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in an effort to clean up the political crisis created by his policy of dividing children from their parents along the border while doing nothing to fix the humanitarian crisis, Donald Trump signed an executive order that would continue to jail and cage kids and families along the border who come to the United States seeking a better life.
June 20, 2018
Portland, OR -- This week, automakers, utilities, labor groups, and consumer advocates are joining environmental groups in signing the Transportation Electrification Accord. The Accord seeks to serve as a roadmap, offering a shared vision detailing how states and communities can establish an equitable electrified transportation future.