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Sierra Club Celebrates Latino Conservation Week
Oakland, CA— From July 17-25, 2021, Sierra Club will join Latino Conservation Week celebrations— a week of events sponsored by the Hispanic Access Foundation to support the Latino community getting into the outdoors and participating in activities to protect our natural resources. This year’s celebrations focus on heightening awareness on the need for climate action to protect → Read More
Sierra Magazine Debuts Redesign Amidst Organizational Transformation
Oakland, CA— As part of its 125-year journey, Sierra —the national magazine of Sierra Club, the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States—has unveiled a dynamic redesign. In addition to its fresh look, Sierra will now be published on a quarterly basis. The new Sierra features more experimental and personal writing, a recommitment → Read More
Sierra Club Honors National Immigrant Heritage Month
Washington, DC— This week, President Biden declared June National Immigrant Heritage Month, calling on Americans to learn more about the history of immigrant communities and to highlight the ways in which immigrants have enriched our country. In the late 1990s, anti-immigration Sierra Club members attempted to take over the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors in order to exclude → Read More
Sierra Club Celebrates Biden Administration Move to Reinstate Protections in Endangered Species Act
Washington, DC— Today, the Biden administration took several actions to undo the previous administration’s gutting of the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA announced the agencies would begin the process to: Rescind regulations that revised Fish and Wildlife Service’s process for considering exclusions from critical habitat designations: This → Read More
Sierra Club Celebrates National Ocean Month
Washington, DC— This week, President Biden declared June National Ocean Month— calling on everyone to take action to protect, conserve, and restore our ocean and coasts. The Biden- Harris administration’s ‘America the Beautiful’ plan released last month includes a framework to conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands, freshwater, and ocean areas by 2030. In response, Chris Hill, → Read More
Statement: On Centennial of Race Massacre, Black Wall Street Needs National Monument Protection
Tulsa, OK— Today, as President Biden visits Tulsa to memorialize the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, leaders called on his administration to designate the site, known as ‘Black Wall Street’ a national monument. For decades, Black people in our country have been under assault from systemic violence and an unfair political system more responsive to the voices of → Read More
Sierra Club Applauds 30x30 Vision, Highlights Local Conservation Efforts
Albuquerque, NM— Today, the Department of the Interior released an outline that lays the groundwork for the national effort to protect 30% of lands and waters in the United States by 2030 (an effort known as “30x30”). The agency recognized the importance of conserving natural places to fight the climate crisis, focused on addressing inequities in access to nature, and put → Read More
Biden Administration Moves to Keep Long-Fought Desert, Clean Energy Plan in California
California-- Today, the Biden administration announced that its Department of the Interior will not go forward with an eleventh-hour Trump-era plan to eliminate millions of acres of protections for California’s deserts within the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP). In response, Jenny Binstock, Senior Campaign Representative for Sierra Club’s Our Wild America → Read More
MINING COMPANY THREATENS TRIBAL RESOURCES IN CALIFORNIA DESERT
BISHOP, CA — A Canadian gold exploration company, K2 Gold, has completed Phase 1 of an exploratory drilling project on traditional homelands of the Paiute-Shoshone and Timbisha Shoshone, on the doorstep of the area commonly known as Death Valley National Park. Following Phase 1, local tribes and advocates were alarmed to discover that K2 Gold exceeded acreage allotted by the → Read More
Groups Challenge Trump Administration Over Gray Wolf Delisting
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today six environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s rule that removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the lower-48 states except for a small population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made its decision despite the science that concludes wolves are still → Read More
Border Groups Call on Congress to Reject Funding for Border Wall Construction
Congress has included $1.375 billion in funding for border wall construction in this year's appropriations package. This request comes just days before President-elect Biden takes office. Biden has publicly mentioned several times his administration will not build another mile of border wall. Border groups are pushing back and calling on Congress to deny all funding for future → Read More
Trump Administration Again Slashes Endangered Species Act Protections to Benefit Polluters
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) finalized a rule change that alters the process for designating critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. This will weaken the ability to designate critical habitat for at-risk species and prioritize economics over science. The rule gives increased weight in decision making to developers to prioritize oil and gas development → Read More
Congress, Nevada Delegation Deny Military Expansions Onto Public Lands
Reno, NV-- A broad coalition of conservationists, Native Americans, sportsmen and women, elected officials and others are celebrating the Congressional vote today that denies the U.S. military its long sought-after expansions of two major facilities in Nevada, at the Fallon Naval Air Station and the Nellis Test and Training Range. In passing the 2020 National Defense → Read More
Pendley’s Continuation at BLM Unlawful, Corrupt
Washington, DC— Today, Interior Secretary Bernhardt sent an email to the agency’s staff stating that William Perry Pendey— who a court ruled has been illegally serving as Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Acting Director— will remain on the Interior Department’s management team. The Trump administration also refused to name a replacement for BLM Director despite Pendley’s → Read More
Trump Administration Proposes New Habitat Cuts for Endangered Species
WASHINGTON, D.C— The Trump administration today announced a new proposed rule to circumvent establishing habitat protections for endangered species. The rule follows a string of other proposals to weaken the Endangered Species Act, including another rule proposed just last month putting additional restrictions on designation of critical habitat. In response Sierra Club Senior → Read More
Trump Administration Guts Protections for National Forest Lands in Another Boost for Fossil Fuels
Washington, DC— Today, the Trump administration proposed gutting protections for national forest lands— granting easier access to the fossil fuel industry for drilling and fracking on the landscapes. The proposed rule will limit the Forest Service’s opportunities to evaluate whether an area is too high-risk to drill or frack, and the agency will not be required to conduct full → Read More
9th Circuit Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Yellowstone Grizzlies
SAN FRANCISCO--The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the Montana District Court’s opinion that reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for the Yellowstone region’s grizzly bear population. The decision spares the grizzlies from plans for trophy hunts in the states of Wyoming and Idaho. Earthjustice, representing the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Sierra Club, Center → Read More
It’s Past Time to Dismantle Racism in the Outdoors
It’s critical we also confront our history and biases in the conservation movement, and support more resources, less policing and anti-racism that can make our places of recreation ones that welcome everyone. → Read More
Pendley’s Reappointment Reveals Anti-Environment Agenda Continues during Pandemic
Washington, DC-- Today, Secretary of the Interior Bernhardt officially extended the Bureau of Land Management Acting Director Pendley’s appointment until June 5, 2020. In response, Lena Moffitt, Director of the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign, released the following statement: “In the midst of an ongoing public health crisis, we need leaders who will fight for the → Read More
Trump Administration Again Tosses Out Science to Favor Polluters
Washington, DC-- Today, the Hill reported that Interior Secretary Bernhardt will move forward a contested proposal to eliminate requirements for the agency to consider science on public health, the environment and other critical issues in decision-making. The rollbackcomes after a similar change by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Wheeler focused on rolling → Read More