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Post Tagged with: "Environment"
Wyden Amendment to S. 744
Yesterday, Senator Rob Wyden of Oregon sponsored an amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill. The current bill sacrifices environmental protection and the safety of border communities for the sake of a pathway to citizenship. But this is ugly, divisive politics. The hyper militarization of the border is not only unnecessary, it is ineffective. PLEASE [...]
Sierra Club Statement on Wyden Amendment to Senate Immigration Bill
June 19, 2013 CONTACT: Maggie Kao, maggie.kao@sierraclub.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Ron Wyden (OR) filed an amendment (Amendment 1318) to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill that would provide more flexibility for border security, save more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money, and reinstate the rule of law along the nation’s Southern border. [...]
El Muro: What are we destroying to protect? a film by Greg Rainoff
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security began the construction of a second, massive border wall along the US-Mexico border through private property, national and state parks, wildlife preserves, sacred lands. The construction was speeded along by a provision of the Real ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005. Section 102 of the Real ID [...]
Sierra Club joins Immigrants Rights Orgs in a united call for a Path to Citizenship
In a surprising and welcome move this week, the national board of the Sierra Club voted on Wednesday to support comprehensive immigration reform. The move unifies the Sierra Club and the already powerful immigrant rights movement, bringing hefty political clout to the support of a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants. [...]
Border Walls versus Environmental Justice
Contributed by No Border Wall 4 February 2011 In 1994 President Clinton issued Executive Order 12898 to address the issue of Environmental Justice. It instructs federal agencies to identify and address actions that might have “disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects… on minority populations and low-income populations.” EO 12898 remains in effect [...]
Immigrant rights and environmental organizations come together on issues of immigration
Sierra Club unites with Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference November 2, 2010 Contact: Bill Chandler, MIRA, (601) 968-5183 Sean Sullivan, Sierra Club Borderlands Team, (520) 250-9040 JACKSON, MS – At this year’s 5th annual Unity Conference, sponsored by the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the [...]
BORDER FENCE: Smuggler’s Gulch project a ‘disaster’ for estuary, critics say
Originally published 15 January 2009 by April Reese, E&E Western reporter LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE This article is part of an occasional series on the environmental impacts of the new border fence being constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border. IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — Newly filled with 1.3 million cubic yards of hard-packed dirt, Smuggler’s Gulch, long [...]
>U.S., Mexico and Canada Agreement at WILD9
>See WILD9 Link for pdf in English MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING On Cooperation for Wilderness Conservationbetween the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE and BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT of the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR and the U.S. FOREST SERVICE and OFFICE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND MARKETS of the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREof the [...]
>Corporate Commitment to Wilderness: Memorandum of Understanding to Protect Wilderness
>Memorandum of Understanding between the WILD Foundation and Members of the Corporate Commitment to Wilderness At WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress See WILD9 link for PDF November 2009 This MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (Memorandum), dated November 9, 2009, records the basis upon which the Parties to this Memorandum have agreed to collaborate.. The Parties to [...]
US-Mexico Border Wall Slicing through Fragile Ecosystems
Amy Goodman interviews Isabel Garcia of Derechos Humanos, and Sean Sullivan of Sierra Club Borderlands Team, and Dan Millis of No More Deaths, on the Border Wall. “We take a look at the environmental impact of the 600 miles of barricades along the US-Mexico border. The wall slices across fragile ecosystems in public lands, parks [...]
