by Ellen M. Gilmer A pumpjack bobs on public lands in Utah. A major regulation for the oil and gas industry is up for debate today in federal court. WildEarth Guardians/Flickr An Obama-era rule for hydraulic fracturing on public and tribal lands finally heads to appellate court today after years of legal turmoil. The 10th [...]
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will visit the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in Southern New Mexico this week as part of a review of protected public lands. Zinke’s office, at the direction of President Donald Trump, is reconsidering the status of two monuments in New Mexico and about two dozen around the country. The review [...]
Calling all mentors/teachers! The Sierra Club’s Rio Grande Chapter is working to expand the kids, climate-focused afterschool program called the Global Warming Express <https://vimeo.com/136319729> (theglobalwarmingexpress.org) It's the 5th year of this after school science, sustainability, art and activism programming in the public, charter and private schools in your town/city. We are expanding this award-winning program [...]
by James Murray Stark warnings from investment giant Schroders on the risks of climate change should have caused a media storm this week - instead they barely made a ripple Imagine for a second that one of the world's most influential investment firms issued a stark warning that Brexit was accelerating the UK's economy towards [...]
What local leaders are saying about lesser-known areas as review nears its end. by Rebecca Worby After receiving nearly 1.5 million public comments, the Department of the Interior’s national monuments review enters its final month. Meanwhile, Secretary Ryan Zinke continues to visit sites under review. Of the 27 monuments originally highlighted by the order, Bears Ears [...]
By Rebecca Moss Gas wells in La Plata County, near Durango, Colo. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald Little more than a change in title separates the border between New Mexico and Colorado north of Farmington. The landscape remains an expanse of low, brown hills spotted with stout juniper trees. Untamed Siberian elms burgeon along La Plata River, [...]
WASHINGTON, JULY 14, 2017 – With the help of 46 Republicans, the U.S. House yesterday defeated an amendment to a Defense Department authorization bill that would have blocked a study on the impact that climate change is having on national security. Citizens’ Climate Lobby wishes to thank, in particular, the members of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucuswho voted to [...]
Western nations take action on climate change — and push for self-governance. by Lyndsey Gilpin The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community started planning for climate change a decade ago. Located on the southeastern peninsula of Fidalgo Island on Puget Sound in Washington, the reservation is surrounded by water and at high risk for sea-level rise. A destructive 100-year [...]
The public comment period following Trump’s order on monuments has closed. by Emily Benson The clock has run out. July 10 was the last chance for the public to weigh in on the Interior Department’s review of more than two-dozen national monuments, most of which are located in the West. By the time the comment period closed, the agency [...]
State’s Rapid Expansion of Oil and Gas Leasing Failed to Comply with the Environmental Rights Amendment Contact: Gabby Brown, gabby.brown@sierraclub.org Harrisburg, PA -- Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state government must act as trustees for public natural resources under the Environmental Rights Amendment. The decision overturns a lower court decision and rules that the state [...]