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With less than 100 days until the election, this is the moment to give it our all – for each of us to pitch in to ensure we win in November and defeat Donald Trump. Sierra Club is ramping up our efforts to reach voters in key swing states, with ways for you to volunteer in person or from the comfort of your own home.
Senators John Barrasso and Joe Manchin, who have taken more money from the oil and gas industry than anyone else in DC, are rushing a dirty deal through Congress that would be a massive giveaway to their fossil fuel donors. Tomorrow, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will vote on "permitting reform" legislation that, if passed, will open up federal lands and waters to more oil and gas leasing and drilling and rush the review of proposed gas export projects.
Crucial building materials like steel are still mostly produced using coal power, and contribute about nine percent of the total human-made carbon dioxide emissions globally. These old, inefficient plants harm the climate and put workers at risk from toxic pollution. Clean manufacturing can help us build a strong economy, create good jobs, and clean up our air and water.
The Biden administration's Army Corps of Engineers is considering a plan to reroute the dangerous Line 5 pipeline that would extend the threat of a disastrous oil spill to the Great Lakes. We are calling on President Biden's administration to shut down this decrepit pipeline and cement his climate legacy!
Last week the City of Painesville, Ohio announced it will be retiring its municipal coal plant by 2030. This is the 385th coal plant to announce retirement since the launch of the Beyond Coal Campaign in 2010, but our work is far from over. We still need your help to mobilize our movement to shut down coal plants, fight climate change, and build a clean, sustainable future for all.
Did you know that some of our most beautiful national parks are entirely accessible without a car? You can soak up the immensity of Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks without ever pressing on the gas pedal. You can find picture perfect parks that can be reached and explored through a mix of train travel and shuttle bus services. Because why should a vacation feel like a commute?
A North Atlantic right whale mother named Snow Cone with a new calf in 2021 off the coast of Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Photo Credit: Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
North Atlantic right whales journey over 1,000 miles in their quest for food. In doing so, they risk fatal ship strikes and entanglements with ropes, threats that have pushed this species, now numbering fewer than 360 individuals, to the brink of extinction. Now, the Biden administration and scientists are advocating for new measures to help protect this rare species.
Jim Childress, a member of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas, searches for odonates at the Red Slough Wildlife Management Area in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. | Photo by Nick Oxford.
Dragonflies, also called odonates, are like nature's pest control. They eat many of the insects humans hate – mosquitoes, gnats, flies. Yet, much of the current research on them is done by self-taught enthusiasts with expert-level knowledge. Tag along with one of Sierra's correspondents as she joins a community-led quest to find dragons in one of the most odonate-rich regions of the United States.
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.
