Press Releases

Interior Plans to Further Gut Staffing Levels as Part of New Initiative

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Department of the Interior announced a new scheme to downsize its workforce. 

FOIA Documents Reveal Trump Administration Ordered Fish and Wildlife Service to Change Materials About Indigenous Peoples

Changes recommended at wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, offices reveal Interior’s contradictory approach to implementing executive order

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s massive public lands giveaway in Alaska

Ten Alaska and national groups sued the Interior Department today for unlawfully  removing federal protections over public lands in an area stretching from the Yukon River to the  Brooks Range. These lands had been protected for over 50 years and subject to federal oversight that intended to ensure Arctic health and a stable corridor for the Dalton Highway and  Trans-Alaska Pipeline.  

Steve Pearce Committee Approval Endangers California's Public Lands

SACRAMENTO - This week the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee voted 11-9 down party lines to move forward the nomination of Steve Pearce for Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Pearce is facing steep backlash from conservation, hunting and outdoor groups for his radical positions on land management.

Sierra Club Oregon Chapter Statement on Senate Committee Vote to Advance Nomination of Steve Pearce as BLM Director

PORTLAND, Ore. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources advanced Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.By a party-line vote of 11-9, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources moved Pearce’s nomination to a vote by the full Senate. Oregon’s Senator Ron Wyden, a committee member, voted against the nomination.

Sierra Club Statement on Senate Committee Vote on Nomination of Steve Pearce

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources advanced Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.By a party line vote of 11-9, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources moved Pearce’s nomination to a vote by the full Senate. 

Sierra Club Statement on Trump Administration’s Attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Republicans began the process of overturning the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.

Sierra Club Statement on Confirmation Hearing on Nomination of Steve Pearce to Lead BLM 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a confirmation hearing on Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.During the hearing, Pearce was peppered with questions about his previous support for selling off vast swaths of federal public lands to private interests and opposition to national monuments. BLM manages approximately 245 million acres of public surface land and an additional 700 million acres of subsurface mineral rights.

"Sell Off Steve" Pearce a Terrible Choice for BLM, Colorado Public Lands

DENVER - The U.S. Senate hearing for Steve Pearce, nominee for Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is triggering fierce push back from conservation and environmental groups this week. 

National Park Service Plans to Censor Brochures on Murder of Civil Rights Leader

Proposed changes at National Monument in Mississippi the latest in a string of censorship actions ordered by the Trump Administration