Lindsey Botts

1 week ago | sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts

Since the beginning of the year, President Trump has urged Congress to pass “one big, beautiful bill,” referring to a legislative package that would extend and expand his 2017 tax cuts. Shortly after, some lawmakers began floating the idea of selling public land to help offset those cuts. On Tuesday night, the House Natural Resources Committee delivered on that suggestion, putting forward a legislative package that authorizes the sale of over 11,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.

2 weeks ago | sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts |Maria Hoey

The carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing steel are so massive that they surpass the European Union’s entire output. This ubiquitous building material, along with carbon-intensive cement (the base material in concrete), frames nearly every skyscraper, industrial facility, and transportation hub, making construction responsible for one-sixth of the world’s CO2 emissions.

1 month ago | sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts |Miguel Porlan

1.6°C: The global average warming above preindustrial levels reached in 2024, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That was the first year the number exceeded 1.5°C (2.7°F). 220: US solar capacity in gigawatts at the end of 2024. This was a 24 percent increase from the capacity in 2023 and enough to keep the lights on in over 35 million homes.  52: The percentage of Americans who oppose withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, according to an AP poll.

1 month ago | sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts

On Wednesday, lawmakers on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the first hearing on President Trump’s nomination to lead the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). If confirmed, Brian Nesvik, a former game warden-turned-Wyoming Game and Fish director, would lead the federal agency whose primary charge is to protect the plants and animals most in need of conservation. During the hearing, not one lawmaker asked Nesvik about a federally protected species.

Jan 8, 2025 | sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts

Grizzly bears remain protected-for now. In what is likely President Biden's last major wildlife decision, his administration announced on Tuesday that it would keep grizzlies listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The bears have not returned to 96 percent of their historic range, which includes five recovery areas across Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Washington state-a fact that was crucial to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decision.