<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">RT the Sierra Club: <a href="https://twitter.com/sierraclub/status/728643885271011328" class="">https://twitter.com/sierraclub/status/728643885271011328</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sierra Club statement: <a href="https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2016/05/sierra-club-statement-secretary-clinton-s-opposition-lame-duck-vote-tpp" class="">https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2016/05/sierra-club-statement-secretary-clinton-s-opposition-lame-duck-vote-tpp</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Friday, May 6, 2016</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Contact: Dan Byrnes, <a href="tel:%28202%29%20495-3039" value="+12024953039" target="_blank" class="">(202) 495-3039</a> or <a href="mailto:daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org" target="_blank" class="">daniel.byrnes@sierraclub.org</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2016/05/sierra-club-statement-secretary-clinton-s-opposition-lame-duck-vote-tpp" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class="">View as webpage</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sierra Club Statement on Secretary Clinton’s Opposition to a Lame Duck Vote on TPP </span></div><p align="center" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">WASHINGTON, D.C.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> -- In response to a </span><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/oregon/files/2016/05/ORFTCPresidentialQuestionnaire_Clinton2016.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">questionnaire</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> released today by the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, Secretary Hillary Clinton stated for the first time that she opposes a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal during the lame duck session of Congress at the end of this year. She also frontlined a commitment to “ensure that our trade policy supports, rather than undermines, our climate policies.”</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:</span></div><p align="center" dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be a disaster for working families, communities, and our climate, and we applaud Secretary Clinton for opposing a vote on the toxic deal before and after the election. Secretary Clinton recognizes what climate activists and millions of Americans across the country have made clear: trade policy must not undermine climate action.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“It is so critical for the next Administration to strongly and explicitly oppose any trade rules that allow polluters to challenge climate protections in private tribunals. The Sierra Club is eager to work with current and future leaders to build a new model of trade that protects working families, healthy communities, and a stable climate.”</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">###</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">More information:</span></u></div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Read the Sierra Club’s report on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership would empower polluters to challenge our climate protections in private tribunals here: </span><a href="http://sc.org/climate-roadblocks" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">sc.org/climate-roadblocks</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></div></li><li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Read Secretary Clinton’s questionairre responses here: </span><a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/oregon/files/2016/05/ORFTCPresidentialQuestionnaire_Clinton2016.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/oregon/files/2016/05/ORFTCPresidentialQuestionnaire_Clinton2016.pdf</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></div></li><li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">When asked “</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">If elected President, would you oppose holding a vote on the TPP during the ‘lame duck’ session before you take office?”</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> Secretary Clinton responded, “I have said I oppose the TPP agreement – and that means before and after the election.”</span></div></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Secretary Clinton’s responses on climate disruption are as follows:</span></div><ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.8px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><li style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Do you believe the rules that govern international trade should reflect the views and needs of working people on issues such as jobs, wages, the environment, human rights, consumer safety and access to medicine? </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I’ve laid out a three-part test for any trade agreement to earn my support: it must (1) create American jobs, (2) raise wages, and (3) improve our national security. My approach to trade would be to establish and enforce fair rules so that our workers compete on a level playing field and countries don’t race to the bottom on labor, the environment, and so much else. And we can bring others along in having higher labor, environmental, and other standards. As president I will ensure that our trade policy supports, rather than undermines, our climate policies, reducing emissions at home and encouraging climate action abroad.</span><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I’ll make sure that trade agreements don’t weaken American consumer safety standards and that imports comply with our rules. And I’ll fight against any proposals that undermine worker rights.</span></div></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Do you believe the TPP does enough to address climate change? </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I do not. As president I will ensure that our trade policy supports, rather than undermines, our policies to reduce emissions at home and encourage climate action abroad. I know there is concern among environmental groups that the ISDS provisions in the TPP could be used to undermine U.S. efforts to cut carbon pollution and take action on climate change. And again, with respect to the flawed ISDS provisions in TPP, I believe we need to have a new paradigm for trade agreements that doesn’t give special rights to corporations, but not to workers and NGOs.</span></div></li></ul></li></ul><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 17.664px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Paid for by the Sierra Club Voter Education Fund, which seeks to raise key environmental issues in the discussions around elections, and encourage the public to find out more about candidates' positions on key environmental issues.</span></div></div></body></html>