Virginia Cramer
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Sierra Club Mourns Loss of Adam Kolton
Sierra Club issued the following statements on the passing of Adam Kolton, executive director of Alaska Wilderness League. → Read More
Sierra Club Welcomes Passage of COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
Led by Sen. Mazie Hirano, Congress today passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act to speed review of hate crimes and expand reporting efforts. Passage comes amidst an increase in hate crimes across the country, particularly anti-Asian violence. The bill was strengthened by the inclusion of the Blumenthal-Moran legislation, the NO HATE Act, as an amendment. The amendment improves → Read More
Sierra Club Praises Reversal of Trump’s Racist Immigration Policy
Among the decisive actions taken today by the newly inaugurated Biden Administration is an order reversing a ban on travel to the United States from majority Muslim countries. → Read More
Sierra Club Condemns Swap of Sacred Indigenous Land to Mining Company
The Trump administration is expected to release today a final proposal to transfer ownership of Oak Flat, a sacred land to a dozen Indigenous Tribes, to a mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site in Australia. The move comes just days before Trump leaves office and comes despite years of opposition from Apache-Stronghold, the San Carlos Apache Tribe, → Read More
Trump Administration Proposes Opening California Desert to Destructive Development
Today, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management released a proposal to undermine conservation protections in the California Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP). The proposed rollback will make the land more accessible to mining and development interests, and its reopening is widely objected to by conservation and community groups, including California → Read More
Trump Administration Strips Protections from Migratory Birds
In the midst of the first human-driven mass extinction with over 1 million species at risk of disappearing forever, the Trump administration has finalized a rule stripping critical protections from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This reckless move is the latest in a slew of efforts by the Trump administration to gut vital safeguards for wildlife. → Read More
Sierra Club Praises Haaland Nomination for Department of the Interior
President-elect Biden today nominated Rep. Deb Haaland to serve as Secretary of the Interior. The Department of the Interior manages the country’s national parks and approximately 450 million acres of public lands, oversees wildlife and other conservation efforts, and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indigenous communities. → Read More
Trump Administration to Finalize Rollback Thwarting Habitat Protection for Endangered Species
The Trump administration tomorrow is expected to finalize a rule to circumvent establishing habitat protections for endangered and threatened species. The rule follows a string of other efforts and rollbacks to weaken the Endangered Species Act under the Trump administration. → Read More
Sierra Club on National Defense Authorization Act Passage
Today the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act. The massive defense policy bill includes measures to increase military climate-preparedness, to begin addressing toxic PFAS contamination, and notably to redesignate military installations currently named after prominent Confederate military and political leaders. Trump has threatened to veto the legislation, the → Read More
Forest Service Finalizes Rollback of Critical Forest Protections, Public Input
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration today published a final rule containing rollbacks undercutting the role of science, transparency, and broad public input for decisions involving projects proposed on national forest land. The new rule will pave the way to increased logging, road, and pipeline construction. → Read More
Trump Administration Strips Protections from Wolves
In the latest attack on endangered species, the Trump administration today finalized a rule stripping protections from gray wolves across most of the lower 48 states. The politically-driven move will turn wolf management over to historically hostile state agencies → Read More
Sierra Club Condemns Decision to Open Roadless Areas of Tongass National Forest to Logging
The US Forest Service issued notice for a Final Record of Decision today eliminating the Roadless Rule in the Tongass National Forest. The decision opens vast swaths of irreplaceable old-growth temperate rainforest to clearcut logging, jeopardizing the subsistence culture of Indigenous communities, the forest’s role in fighting the climate crisis, and already imperiled wildlife. → Read More
Sierra Club Welcomes California’s Focus on Lands, Waters as Climate Solution
California Governor Gavin Newsom today announced new efforts in the state’s work to combat climate change and protect nature, focusing on the role of lands and waters as climate solutions. Through an Executive Order, Newsom makes California the first state to proactively advance work to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, a vital component of international → Read More
Sierra Club Statement on Western Wildfires
Current wildfires burning across California are slowly coming under control and evacuation orders have been lifted in several parts of the state, though not all. Smoke from the fires continues to create dangerously unhealthy air across the state and the West-- an increased health risk in the midst of the pandemic. These fires in California killed seven people and burned → Read More
Sierra Club Statement on Passage of House Interior, EPA Appropriations Bills
The House today passed the FY2021 Minibus 1. The bill increases funding for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency and includes provisions to protect and prioritize public health, while supporting environmental programs to address climate change,safeguard clean water and invest in green infrastructure. Also included are specific provisions → Read More
WH Oil Executive Invite Highlights Misplaced Priorities
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Donald Trump is expected to meet with oil executives tomorrow at the White House to discuss additional aid for the industry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting comes as Congressional Republicans are throwing cold water on further stimulus that could fill urgent relief gaps and lay the groundwork for clean energy and infrastructure projects to → Read More
Sierra Club on Senate Stimulus Package Passage
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate today passed a stimulus package aimed at alleviating economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The package follows an agreement reached by the White House and Congressional leadership, with funding focused on meeting healthcare, worker and small business needs. The House is expected to pass the legislation by unanimous consent. → Read More
COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration: Put People First
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A national emergency declaration was issued today to address the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The move should open the door to federal relief funding to assist state and local government responses to the illness. → Read More
Sierra Club on Jorjani Interior Solicitor Confirmation
WASHINGTON, D.C: Daniel Jorjani was confirmed today as solicitor for the Department of the Interior. His confirmation comes as Jorjani is under investigation for his role in the Interior Department’s unethical public records process. → Read More
Trump Orders Forest Protection Rollbacks
The Washington Post broke news yesterday that Trump has ordered the Forest Service to roll back protections for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. As the Post noted: “The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it up to potential logging, energy and mining projects.” → Read More