WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House passed HR218 or the King Cove Road Land Exchange Act— a bill that authorizes the building of a road through Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
In response, Sierra Club’s public lands policy director Athan Manuel released the following statement:
“King Cove residents deserve quality, emergency access to healthcare.
Washington, DC -- The Sierra Club has launched an ad campaign opposing Donald Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt’s attempts to rollback fuel efficiency standards.
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ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. -- Citing threats to North Carolina’s fragile coastal environment and coastal economy, Gov. Roy Cooper today announced his firm opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to open the mid-Atlantic to offshore drilling.
"There is a threat looming over this coastline that we love and the prosperity it brings, and that's the threat of offshore drilling," Cooper said. "As governor, I'm here to speak out and to take action against it. I can sum it up in four words: Not off our coast."
Washington, DC -- This afternoon, the House of Representatives voted to pass two bills, pushed by Congressional Republicans, that would fast-track approval of cross-border and interstate oil and gas pipelines.
Washington, DC -- Today, the Trump administration announced that John Melle, a nearly 30-year employee at USTR and currently the assistant U.S. trade representative for the Western Hemisphere will lead the U.S. in NAFTA renegotiations. Melle joined the USTR in 1988 -- three years before NAFTA negotiations began -- and has held various positions, including overseeing NAFTA’s implementation.
Washington, DC -- Today, Donald Trump’s voting commission held its first meeting, where Trump and Mike Pence gave conflicting remarks. As it has been heavily reported, there are numerous reports showing that there has never been a single case of major voter fraud in America, and a study examining voting between 2000 and 2014 found only 31 credible instances of in-person voter fraud.
In response, Sierra Club Democracy Program Director Courtney Hight released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the polluter backed "Smoggy Skies Act" (H.R. 806), marking another attempt by the fossil fuel industry to dismantle the Clean Air Act’s science-based health protections. These protections are essential to protecting children with asthma and people with chronic heart conditions from life threatening levels of pollution that can send them to the emergency room on bad air days.
WAUKEGAN - City Council approved a resolution committing the City of Waukegan to adopt the Paris Climate Agreement goals, and authorized the Mayor to join the Compact of Mayors. The Paris Agreement, a historic international climate accord which entered into force on November 4, 2016, has been signed by every nation on earth except war-torn Syria and Nicaragua, which would like it to be even stronger. The City’s decision comes just over a month after President Donald Trump announced that the United States would exit the Paris Agreement.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Appropriations Committee marked up a Homeland Security appropriations bill that includes funds for a wall on the Southern U.S. border-- both an attack on human rights and conservation. The committee’s proposed $1.6 billion for a border wall would fund a 72-mile barrier which poses grave risks to human safety and critical Southern U.S. ecosystems. On Friday, news was released that an initial phase of Trump’s proposed wall construction would fragment the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.