Trump’s First Actions Set the Tone of a Presidency Opposed to Helping Americans

Washington, DC - Immediately after being sworn in, Donald Trump signed a number of executive orders intended to slow the growth of clean energy and American manufacturing while increasing American households' energy bills and polluting our air and water.

In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous released the following statement:

"Donald Trump's actions today lay bare his determination to undermine the health and wealth of working families by polluting our air and water while ceding ground to China as he attempts to shutter the brand new factories powering our nation with clean energy. Making our communities more dangerous, driving up respiratory and heart disease, increasing our energy bills, and shipping our jobs overseas is the furthest thing from American leadership and the promises he made to support working class families."

About the Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is America's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.