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Sierra Club Hails Biden’s First Budget Proposal
Biden’s Request Includes Largest Investment in Environmental Justice Ever, Expands Key Climate Action, Equity, Healthcare and Pandemic Preparedness Funding WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Biden formally submitted his first budget request to Congress. → Read More
Sierra Club Hails Senate Confirmation of Michael Regan
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate has confirmed Michael Regan to serve as President Biden’s Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. In response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce released the following statement: “Michael Regan is a proven leader for protecting the most vulnerable and least powerful. Those values are urgently → Read More
STATEMENT: Top Aide to Pruitt and Wheeler Moved Polluter FOIAs to the Front of the Line
The Associated Press reported this morning that EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson admitted in testimony before Congress to expediting a FOIA submission at the request of a corporate polluter lobbyist. Meanwhile, Bloomberg also reported that EPA “manipulated” its handling of FOIA requests to benefit Scott Pruitt. The incident was first exposed as a result of the Sierra Club’s → Read More
STATEMENT: GOP Rider Would Eliminate the Clean Water Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives has attached a toxic rider to their Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that would repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule. The Obama era safeguard would protect drinking water for more than 117 million Americans and protect millions of acres of wetlands and millions of miles of streams across the country against dangerous pollutants. → Read More
Government Climate Reports Directly Contradict Trump & Pruitt’s Denial
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. government released major scientific reports today that further strengthen the connection between human activity and the climate crisis. As part of the Congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, which is required by law to be issued every four years, the government released a series of documents today that includes a final version of the Climate Science… → Read More
Scott Pruitt’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
Scott Pruitt, or as many know him, Polluting Pruitt, can’t seem to catch a break. Ever since Donald Trump named him EPA administrator, he’s worked doggedly to dismantle the very agency he’s been tasked to lead, but for reasons that seem to vex him and his spokesperson, the American public has revolted against him. Why? Well, for the past few weeks at least, it’s because his policies are… → Read More
Despite WH Briefing, Trump Absolutely Not Serious on Climate Change
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Trump Speech Exposes Ignorance or Malice on Environment
Mandan, ND -- Donald Trump’s tax speech showed that he continues to deceive the public about his own environmental policies when he claimed, in contrast to everything he has done in office, that he wants “crystal clean air and water.” Trump also inadvertently drew attention to the massive tax breaks and subsidies which the fossil fuel industry benefits at a cost to U.S. taxpayers by holding… → Read More
ICYMI: Trump’s Assault on Science Continues with Dissolution of Federal Climate Advisory Board
WASHINGTON, DC - Donald Trump has decided not to renew the federal Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment, which is set to expire on Sunday. As reported by the Washington Post, the committee, established in 2015, convened their first meeting in the fall. The committee will continue to draft an advisory report which is due out next spring and which is designed to inform… → Read More
Sierra Club Statement on Abandonment of Nuclear Plant in South Carolina
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/31/2017 Sierra Club Statement on Abandonment of Nuclear Plant in South Carolina Sierra Club has opposed the dangerous V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant since the beginning of the project SOUTH CAROLINA -- SCE&G, and its parent company, SCANA, have just announced that they are abandoning the V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant in South Carolina. The plant has long been an expensive… → Read More
Statement on Breakaway of Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf, Larsen C
WASHINGTON, DC - As reported by the New York Times, “A chunk of floating ice that weighs more than a trillion metric tons broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula, producing one of the largest icebergs ever recorded and providing a glimpse of how the Antarctic ice sheet might ultimately start to fall apart.” → Read More
Scott Pruitt Announces Plan to Attack Settled Science
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Perry Unmasks Himself as Climate Denier Ahead of Congressional Testimony
WASHINGTON, DC. - Donald Trump’s Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, revealed that he continues to be a denier of the overwhelming scientific consensus that man is driving the climate crisis during an extended interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box -- the same program where EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt made national headlines by denying climate science -- during which he promoted fossil fuels like natural… → Read More
Scorching Reaction to Pruitt’s Hill Testimony
WASHINGTON, DC. - Today, Donald Trump’s EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, faced scrutiny in his testimony before Congress about the Trump Administration’s proposed cuts to essential programs that protect the air and water that all Americans breathe and drink. If this budget passes, it will mean dirtier air and water, as its massive budget and staff cuts would hamper the implementation and… → Read More
Statement on Pruitt’s Appearance Before Congress Thursday
WASHINGTON, DC. - Donald Trump’s EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, is currently preparing to speak before Congress tomorrow about the Trump Administration’s proposed cuts to essential programs that protect the air and water that all Americans breathe and drink. If passed, the Trump budget would have enormous negative consequences for the health of all families in the United States. If this budget… → Read More
Trump Wants to Put Lobbyist for Polluters in Charge of Enforcing Anti-Pollution Laws
WASHINGTON, DC - According to reporting from The Intercept, Susan Bodine, whom Donald Trump nominated on May 12 to be assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, is a longtime lobbyist on behalf of Superfund polluters who would be responsible for managing that program. More from The Intercept: “According to her LinkedIn account, from 2009 until 2015,… → Read More
SCIENTISTS RESIGN FROM EPA IN PROTEST
WASHINGTON, DC - As reported by POLITICO Pro, scientists resigned today from an EPA advisory panel in protest of Administrator Scott Pruitt’s recent decision not to reappoint nine members of the Board of Scientific Counselors, a panel of outside experts that advise EPA on research and development issues. The New York Times reports these scientists believe that Pruitt’s intention is to replace… → Read More
What Happened to Reverend Yearwood at the Science March was an Injustice, Plain and Simple
WASHINGTON, DC - Environmental Justice champion Reverend Lennox Yearwood posted to Huffington Post today and described in graphic detail how he was “assaulted, roughed up, and detained” by a police officer in Washington, D.C. while attempting to cross the street near the National Mall during the Science March on Saturday. Yearwood was slammed against a food truck and accused of being “on drugs,”… → Read More
Statement: Weakening U.S. Paris Climate Pledge would create blowback, harm America’s global standing
WASHINGTON, DC - POLITICO is reporting that President Donald Trump's most senior advisers will meet next week to discuss the Administration’s position on the Paris agreement. Some of the most extreme options being discussed include pulling out of the accord and weakening the United States’ national emissions reduction commitment. Ahead of that meeting, former Trump EPA Transition official Myron… → Read More
Trump’s Attack on Clean Air and Climate Action Targets Policy that Saves Thousands of Lives & Billions of Dollars
WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executi → Read More