Sierra Club Michigan Chapter today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain current fuel economy standards that protect our air, land and Great Lakes. Under the Trump Administration, the EPA is reconsidering previously finalized clean cars standards that reduce tailpipe carbon pollution, improve fuel economy, and combat climate change.
Today, Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a hearing for their reconsideration of light duty vehicle greenhouse gas emissions standards for model years 2021-2025.
Today in the midst of a national emergency along the Gulf Coast, Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, is set to announce the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, leaving it up to congress to protect the more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants in the program.
Today, on Labor Day, the Sierra Club is joining SEIU and the Fight for $15 movement at major actions across the country to highlight the need for good union jobs. The Sierra Club is proud to support these workers in their fight for a living wage on a living planet.
The plan to build a new fracked gas plant at the Asheville coal plant site at Lake Julian has been postponed by at least four years, according to a Duke Energy Progress filing today with state regulators.
Even in the midst of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and a national emergency on the Gulf Coast that has hit communities of color and the immigrant community especially hard, House Republicans are looking to cut a billion dollars of disaster relief money in order to fund an ineffectual and disastrous border wall. At the same time, the Trump Administration announced plans yesterday to select vendors for concrete prototypes of the wall.
Even in the midst of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and a national emergency on the Gulf Coast that has hit communities of color and the immigrant community especially hard, House Republicans are looking to cut a billion dollars of disaster relief money in order to fund an ineffectual and disastrous border wall. At the same time, the Trump Administration announced plans yesterday to select vendors for concrete prototypes of the wall.
HARRISBURG, PA -- Today, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved water permits for Transco’s Atlantic Sunrise project, a fracked gas pipeline that will cut through hundreds of Pennsylvania streams and wetlands. The permits follow on the Department’s decision more than a year ago to grant a crucial water quality certification for this pipeline, without reviewing the pipeline’s impacts on water quality through the state permitting process.
ALBANY, NY -- Yesterday the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied a necessary permit to the Valley Lateral project, a fracked gas pipeline slated to go a new power plant owned by Competitive Power Ventures in Orange County, NY. DEC cited the recent federal court decision for the Sabal Trail pipeline holding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) did not sufficiently consider the climate impacts of burning the gas transported by these pipelines before approving them.
PHOENIX, AZ -- Today, Trump’s administration will announce selected vendors for construction of concrete wall prototypes for a wall along the U.S.- Mexico border. The construction threatens local communities, wildlife and wild spaces.
In response, Sierra Club Borderlands Organizer Dan Millis released the following statement: