Michael Brune
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Dispatch From the Line 3 Front Lines
The Indigenous-led struggle against the Line 3 Pipeline is at a critical point. Even as fires blaze and drought deepens across the West and floods devastate communities across the globe, Enbridge has been racing to get this dirty tar sands pipeline built. Our leaders must act now to prevent oil from ever flowing through it. We need to stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure of any kind if… → Read More
Why We’re Calling to Eliminate the Filibuster
Photo by Gage Skidmore, licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. The last time Congress attempted to pass sweeping climate legislation was 11 years ago. Democrats held the presidency and both houses of Congress, and were poised to take action to spark a transition to clean energy and get us off the path toward catastrophic climate change. But they were stymied by an obsolete piece of → Read More
Pulling Down Our Monuments
The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy. It’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting → Read More
This Election May Be the Most Important One Ever
The Sierra Club is investing more resources in this year's races than any previous election → Read More
Voting Shouldn’t Cost Lives
Across this nation, courageous people -- from health-care workers to grocery-store employees -- are facing danger every day to meet the challenges of this horrible pandemic. Nevertheless, Wisconsin’s Republicans -- with the backing of President Donald Trump -- placed the state’s citizens at risk by refusing to permit a modest, one-week extension for mail-in ballots that would → Read More
How the Sierra Club Is Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
As we all begin to deal with a global pandemic, the Sierra Club is adapting and responding so we can keep doing the important work of protecting our natural environment and fighting for a just, clean energy future. → Read More
The Ugliest, Most Dangerous Pipeline of Them All
The Sierra Club is going after the ugliest, most dangerous pipeline of them all -- the money pipeline -- so we can stop all the other ones from being built. → Read More
A Disaster in Itself
Mass power outages may be California's "new normal." So what can we learn from PG&E's failures earlier this month? → Read More
We Can't Get Beyond Carbon With Gas
What makes it so important that we stop the so-called gas rush? → Read More
From Guthrie to Greta
Happy Earth Day and greetings from Tulsa, where I'm celebrating our planet with the good people of Oklahoma at Guthrie Green, a park and performance space right in the heart of town. → Read More
Building More and Doing Better
We need to do more than just build more housing -- we need to do it in a way that's both forward-thinking and equitable. → Read More
Mr. Trump, Tear Down This Wall!
President's proposed border wall is an environmental, human rights nightmare → Read More
Alternative State
In spite of this president, we've been able to defeat pipelines, defeat coal and gas plants, and stand up for our democracy and for workers, families and immigrants. The biggest silver lining: In the process, we've found the vibrant heart of our democracy at the intersection of civil rights, environmental justice and many other issues. → Read More
Alternative State
In spite of this president, we've been able to defeat pipelines, defeat coal and gas plants, and stand up for our democracy and for workers, families and immigrants. The biggest silver lining: In the process, we've found the vibrant heart of our democracy at the intersection of civil rights, environmental justice and many other issues. → Read More
Why We'll March Again
After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, for instance, 80 percent of those left behind in the Lower Ninth Ward were women. For women, exposure to toxic → Read More
The Trump Drill Team's Terrible Offshore Plan
No one expected good news from the Trump administration’s first proposed plan for offshore drilling, but this? The malicious ambition of the plan that In... → Read More
Donald's Terrifically Terrible Tuesday
Donald Trump didn’t just have a bad day in Alabama last Tuesday. After going all-in for a despicable U.S. Senate candidate in a state that would normally... → Read More
No Shame, No Future
Donald Trump considers himself exceptional and, on this one thing, he’s absolutely correct. His gift for unprincipled pandering to exploitative greed has... → Read More
The Toxic Tax Bill
Behind closed doors, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are wheeling and dealing on a tax bill to complement the terrible one already passed by the House of ... → Read More
Nebraska: This Fight Is Not Just About The Pipeline
We must continue to promote clean, renewable energy sources that will make dirty fuels obsolete. → Read More