Lauren Lantry
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ICYMI: Despite His Claims, Trump Has Biggest Backlog of Uncleaned Superfund Sites in 15 Years
Today, the Associated Press reported that despite Donald Trump repeatedly touting Superfund clean-ups as a major priority -- including earlier this week -- his administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded projects in at least 15 years. These numbers come from Trump’s own Environmental Protection Agency. → Read More
Sierra Club: House Must Move Forward with Impeachment Proceedings
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following recent evidence of Trump’s ongoing corruption, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will reportedly announce a formal impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump. → Read More
Report: White House Directed Sec. Ross to Threaten NOAA
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the New York Times reported that the acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) publicly disavow a Birmingham NOAA forecasters’ position that Alabama was not in the path of Hurricane Dorian. Ross then called acting NOAA director Dr. Neil → Read More
Breaking: Climate Denier William Happer Leaving White House Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, E&E News reported that notable climate denier William Happer will leave his post as a senior director on the National Security Council at the end of the week. Happer was tasked with running a now shelved panel on the impacts of the climate crisis on national security and was instrumental in blocking written testimony about the national security → Read More
Did Trump Instruct Ross to Silence NOAA Employees?
As the Guardian reported, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is facing multiple calls to resign, including from the Sierra Club and multiple members of Congress. Those calls come after the New York Times indicated that Ross threatened to fire senior staff at NOAA unless they sided publicly with Donald Trump over his inaccurate portrayal of Hurricane Dorian’s path wrongly including Alabama. → Read More
Trump Puts Country at Risk by Diverting FEMA Emergency Funds for Migrant Detention
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, it was reported that Donald Trump would not only take $271 million in federal funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a hurricane bears down on the United States to fund immigrant detention centers, but that he would offer pardons to anyone in his Administration who helps him break the law to fund his dangerous border wall. Trump → Read More
Trump Admin Continues Assault on Science with Intimidation Tactics
Washington, DC -- This morning, E&E News reported that the Trump administration is deploying armed guards at the CDC to intimidate George Luber, the former head of the CDC's Climate and Health Program who is expected to file a whistleblower complaint this week. → Read More
ICYMI: As Coal Declines, Murray Clamors for Trump
Today, coal baron Bob Murray is hosting a (suggested) $150 a plate fundraiser for the Trump Victory Fundraising Committee. Trump will attend and speak at the fundraiser. → Read More
Mueller Testimony Makes it Clear Trump is Not Exonerated
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress about his report investigating Donald Trump’s obstruction of justice as it relates to the Russia investigation. Throughout the hearing, Mueller made clear that his report does not exonerate President Trump and that Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice after leaving office. → Read More
Sierra Club Welcomes House Committee Leaders Launch of a Bold New Plan to Tackle the Climate Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Rep. Paul Tonko, and Chairman of the Energy Subcommittee Rep. Bobby L. Rush hosted a press conference announcing the committee’s plan to tackle the climate crisis by transitioning the country to 100% clean energy by 2050. → Read More
Andrew Wheeler Stands By Trump’s Racist Attacks While Pushing Policies That Harm Communities of Color
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a recent interview with Eva McKend of Spectrum News, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler was pressed about his reaction to Trump’s racist attacks on four women of color in Congress -- Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley. Wheeler twice refused to condemn Trump’s racism and instead pivoted to → Read More
ICYMI: Trump Axes White House Climate Denial Panel after Public Disapproval
Today, E&E reported that, amid widespread public disapproval of Donald Trump’s monumental environmental policy failures, deadly rollbacks, and anti-science agenda, the Trump Administration’s panel to justify gutting climate safeguards AKA the “Presidential Committee on Climate Security” is dead until after the election. → Read More
Democrats Must Seize Tonight’s Opportunity to Talk Climate
Over the next two nights, Democratic presidential candidates will take to the debate stage in Miami, Florida, a city and state already living with the consequences of the climate crisis. → Read More
Trump’s top EPA air pollution official Again Refuses to Answer Basic Climate Questions
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in a hearing about the Administration’s rollback of the clean car standards, EPA Assistant Administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation Bill Wehrum four times refused to answer Representative McNerney’s yes or no questions on whether he believes in climate science and whether it poses a danger to human health, despite rollbacks to the Clean Power → Read More
ICYMI: US Air Quality Nosedives as Trump Rolls Back Clean Air Protections
On Tuesday, the same evening Trump claimed the US has the “cleanest air and water” at a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, the AP reported that U.S. air quality is deteriorating after years of improvement. The decrease in air quality comes as Trump rolls back two of the US’ biggest defenses of clean air and a safe climate: the Clean Power Plan, replaced yesterday with the → Read More
Sierra Club Statement on Trump’s Campaign Announcement: Trump is the Worst President for Our Environment in History
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump will officially announce his candidacy for President of the United States for the 2020 election cycle. This week, Trump will finalize his rollback of the Clean Power Plan, life-saving climate action that constituted the first-ever safeguard from carbon pollution for existing power plants, and replaced it with the → Read More
Trump Again Actively Seeking Out Collusion
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday, in an interview with ABC, Donald Trump said he may not alert the FBI if foreign governments offered damaging information against 2020 Presidential opponents during the upcoming election. Trump claimed that he’s never called the FBI despite working extensively with the FBI in the 1980s and 90s. Trump then doubled down on his statement on Twitter. → Read More
Sierra Club: Fossil Fuel Industry Climate Report is the Latest Report for Trump to Ignore
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, BP released a report showing global carbon emissions increasing 2 percent over the last year, with U.S. energy consumption increasing 3.5 percent. Donald Trump and EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler have consistently touted U.S. emissions falling. → Read More
Trump Finally Signs Disaster Relief Bill--After Months of Holding It Hostage for Border Wall Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Donald Trump gave into pressure from the American people and signed a bill for desperately needed disaster recovery money after holding it up in an attempt to gain funding for his unpopular border wall. The bill will deliver much needed funds for Puerto Rico and other climate impacted areas across the United States. The bill will also extend of the → Read More
ICYMI: Trump Ignores Loud Public Demands for Climate Action As He Pushes Government to Ignore the Climate Crisis
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is going to new lengths to hide the severity and urgency of the climate crisis from the American public. The U.S. Geological Survey will begin to limit how far into the future it projects the impact of climate change in its reports. Additionally, the next National Climate Assessment (NCA), an interagency → Read More