Trey Pollard
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Sierra Club Statement on Senate Passage of Budget Deal
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Senate advanced a budget deal that avoids the deep cuts to programs that safeguard public health, clean air, and clean water proposed in the Trump Administration budget. → Read More
Sierra Club Applauds Senate’s Bipartisan Vote to Terminate Trump’s Fake National Emergency
Washington, DC-- Today, in a 59-41 vote, the Senate passed a resolution to terminate Trump’s National Emergency declaration-- days after the House passed the companion measure. Sens. Udall (D-NM) and Collins (R-ME) introduced the bipartisan resolution aimed at stopping the president from taking money from critical government programs to construct more border wall. → Read More
House Climate Hearings Signal Change Has Come to Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, two hearings on the climate crisis were held in the U.S. House of representatives -- the first climate hearings of the new Congress. In fact, today’s events are the first climate hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee in six years and the first in the House Natural Resources Committee in eight years. → Read More
STATEMENT: Trump Shutdown over “Border Wall Boondoggle” Throws Nation into Uncertainty
WASHINGTON, DC - Just one week after Donald Trump declared that “I am proud to shut down the government" in order to secure taxpayer funding for a racist, useless, and destructive border wall he has repeatedly claimed would be paid for by Mexico, Trump has vetoed legislation to fund the government and provoked a government shutdown. → Read More
Ryan Zinke Sent Packing on the Horse He Rode In On
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Prompted by more than a dozen investigations into his behavior and actions -- including one that has been sent to the Department of Justice -- Donald Trump announced that Ryan Zinke is out at the Department of the Interior this morning. While serving, Zinke led the largest attack on America’s public lands and waters in history eliminating protections for → Read More
Sierra Club Statement of Support for Organizing Drive at Tesla’s Buffalo Solar Factory
Buffalo, NY -- After workers at Tesla’s Buffalo Solar Factory reached out to the United Steelworkers (USW) about organizing a union, USW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers launched a union organizing drive at the facility yesterday. 400 workers are employed at this plant, which is on the site of a former steel mill where workers were represented by the USW. → Read More
World Bank Quits Coal, Won’t Support New Coal Plant in Kosovo
Washington, DC -- Yesterday, in Bali, Indonesia, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim confirmed that the World Bank is officially not supporting a new coal-fired power plant in Kosovo. Asked by Visar Azemi, Executive Director of the Balkan Green Foundation, where the World Bank stood on its pending support of the proposed 500-megawatt Kosovo C coal-fired power plant, Dr. Kim → Read More
New Findings Highlight Trump’s Utter Failure In Puerto Rico as Florence Bears Down
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last night, Senator Jeff Merkley revealed documents that show the Trump administration diverted $10 million meant for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fund more detention centers for asylum seekers. → Read More
Sierra Club Statement on Senate Approval of Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, the US Senate approved its first funding package of the year, a package of 3 funding bills that includes Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Compared to the House passed 3-funding bill minibus last week, the Senate package is largely free from new anti-environmental poison pill riders. → Read More
ICYMI: Rep. Cummings Finds Pruitt is Delaying FOIA Reporting
A new letter to Scott Pruitt from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, finds that new policies implemented at the EPA to process FOIA requests are delaying the release of information on Pruitt’s activities and behavior at the EPA. → Read More
Sierra Club Joins March for the Ocean
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club is mobilizing its members across the country to attend the March for the Ocean. In Washington DC, and around the country, the March for the Ocean Campaign is mounting mass marches, flotillas and rallies, calling for a stop to offshore drilling that threatens our ocean and coastlines and action to protect coastal communities, protect → Read More
Pruitt's Week was so Bad, it has to be in ALL CAPS
The verdict is in and the only person who had a worse week in Washington than noted Las Vegas Golden Knights fan Ryan Zinke was Scott Pruitt. A growing pile of new scandals has developed this week in the wake of new documents released as a result of the Sierra Club’s FOIA litigation. The documents exposed Pruitt’s corruption for being even more disgraceful and, dare we say it, → Read More
Sierra Club Launches $600,000 Campaign in Support of Jared Polis
Denver, CO - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - Today, the Sierra Club of Colorado announced a new campaign to elect Jared Polis as Colorado’s next Governor. The Sierra Club’s $600,000 investment will result in a comprehensive television, mail, organizing, and digital effort to mobilize Sierra Club supporters and contact hundreds of thousands of voters across Colorado. → Read More
Sierra Club’s Response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union Speech
Washington, DC -- Tonight, Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union speech.In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:“There is nothing Presidential about a speech and an Administration that embody, at their core, a profound attack on the truth, our health, our families, and our planet. → Read More
Sierra Club: Trump’s Immigration Outline is A Xenophobe’s Wish List
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Last night, Donald Trump released an outline for his proposed legislation on immigration. → Read More
Scott Pruitt Takes First Steps to Replace Life-Saving Clean Power Plan with "Do Nothing" Alternative
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, according to several reports, Scott Pruitt’s EPA announced the first step in his efforts to replace the Clean Power Plan with a polluter-friendly alternative, throwing out a plan that would prevent 3,600 premature deaths and 90,000 asthma attacks every year by 2030. → Read More
Senate Budget Committee Advances Despicable Tax Scheme
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Senate Republicans in the Budget Committee advanced a scheme to slash taxes for corporate polluters and billionaires, opening the door for drilling in the Arctic Refuge and massive cuts to life-saving programs across the federal government.In response, Sierra Club Resist Campaign Director Maura Cowley released the following statement: → Read More
Sierra Club: House Tax scam is an outrage
Washington, D.C. - House Republicans have passed a deeply regressive tax plan that will result in outrageous and painful cuts to the core domestic programs that help protect public health, the environment, and so much more in America. More on the bill can be found below.In Response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement: → Read More
Sierra Club Statement on Trump Adminstration’s COP23 Fossil Fuel Event
BONN, GERMANY-- In just a few minutes at the COP23 climate talks, the Trump Administration will be hosting an event to celebrate coal, fracked gas and nuclear fuels. → Read More
Scott Pruitt Needs to Go Back to Law School
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Fox News last night, Scott Pruitt questioned what authority Congress has given the EPA to reduce carbon pollution, again suggesting he’ll attack the proven scientific and legal principles supporting EPA’s duty to protect the health of the public from dangerous greenhouse gas pollution. → Read More