Plus fighting for clean energy, protecting our oceans from offshore drilling, winter book recommendations, and more.
The Insider Newsletter
BREAKING NEWS:TheNew York Times reported yesterday that Trump's Environmental Protection Agency will stop calculating the human health impacts of air and water quality standards. Instead, the agency will reportedly only calculate industry costs.
Between 1999 and 2020, air pollution from coal-fired power plants killed nearly half a million Americans. This move is yet another example of Trump and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin putting corporate polluters' profits over people's lives. Since Trump took office last year, we've been actively fighting his bad policies at every turn -- and we will keep fighting this and every other environmental attack.
The Trump regime isn't even trying to hide its plans to help corporate polluters make more money at the cost of our lives and our wallets. We're struggling to pay our grocery, medical, and utility bills, while oil and gas CEOs make billions at our expense. It's not right, and it doesn't have to be this way! New York and Vermont have already passed groundbreaking laws to hold the fossil fuel industry financially responsible for its role in the climate crisis.
One of Trump's latest giveaways to his Big Oil donors and auto executives is currently underway. He wants to roll back the cost-saving standards that make our cars go farther on a gallon of fuel and drive down air pollution in our communities.
This winter, we're watching our heating costs skyrocket along with grocery prices and medical bills. But while the Trump administration sides with fossil fuel companies and drives up costs, clean energy is proving it can power the world affordably and reliably. In fact, over 90 percent of new solar and wind is cheaper than fossil fuels.
On top of everything else, our oceans are under attack too. A plan proposed by the Trump administration would expand offshore drilling, opening up coastal waters that haven't been leased in decades. This is part of Trump's mission to sell our lands, waters, and public resources to the highest bidder.
We're facing another year of the Trump administration's relentless attacks on public lands, vulnerable wildlife, and bedrock environmental laws that keep us safe. We're ready to do whatever it takes to protect our planet and our future, but we need your support.
New year, new adventures! Nearly a hundred new trips just dropped, including meaningful service trips and scenic hikes, paddling routes, and once-in-a-lifetime journeys. Led by passionate volunteer leaders and rooted in conservation, these trips connect you to incredible places and an even more incredible community.
At a time when division and polarization define our culture and politics, and climate shocks continue to upend lives, how can we chart a path toward a more sustainable future that serves all life on this planet?
Join a Sierra contributor on an epic winter trip through one of America's greatest wildernesses. Far from being a time to hunker down indoors, winter provides unmatched opportunities to see nature in its rawest form.
Whitebark pine is one of the iconic trees of the West, feeding numerous species and helping to regulate alpine ecosystems where other tree species struggle. Yet blister rust, an invasive fungus, is killing them on a massive scale.
We have no time to waste. We must act at unmatched speed on an unprecedented scale to confront the crises facing our country and our planet. We can only be successful by building a movement that works for everyone. Learn more about the Sierra Club.
