July 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Days after its Congressional allies sought to privatize vast swaths of public lands across the country, the Trump administration is launching a new commission charged with making those landscapes “beautiful.”
July 2, 2025
PORTLAND, Ore. — As many Oregonians seek outdoor spaces for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, the Sierra Club Oregon Chapter commends the Oregon congressional delegation for defending against recent attempts to force the sale of public lands in both the U.S. House and Senate. Over the past two months, people across Oregon have expressed strong opposition to multiple proposals that would sell the state’s shared Forest Service and BLM natural spaces to fund tax cuts for billionaires.
June 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Sen. Mike Lee announced he would withdraw language forcing the sale of more than a million acres of public lands from the sprawling Republican budget reconciliation bill. The move comes after Lee previously failed to win approval from the U.S. Senate parliamentarian to include an earlier version of the proposal in the bill.
June 28, 2025
Washington, DC – Late last night, Senate Republicans released updated text of Donald Trump’s dangerous Budget Reconciliation bill that doubles down on efforts to endanger public health, sell off our nation’s public lands, kill clean energy jobs and their economic impact, and raise costs for working families and small businesses—all to hand big tax breaks to billionaires and corporate polluters.
June 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Republicans unveiled their proposed version of Donald Trump’s sprawling “one big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, including Sen. Mike Lee’s controversial proposal to sell off vast swaths of public lands.
June 27, 2025
Oakland, CA – The Sierra Club filed another lawsuit against the Trump Administration, this time seeking to hold the Department of the Interior accountable for its failure to respond to basic Freedom of Information Act requests within the timeline required by law, or even to provide estimates of when such requests may be fulfilled.
June 24, 2025
Washington, DC – Last night, the Senate Parliamentarian ruled against multiple provisions included in the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee’s portion of Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” including the fire sale of millions of acres of public lands and “pay to pollute” provisions to skirt environmental protections.
June 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Department of the Interior released a draft plan that would open up the largest contiguous piece of public lands in the country to oil and gas drilling. The draft plan would open up 82 percent of the Western Arctic to drilling. The Western Arctic comprises 23 million acres of public lands in northwest Alaska.
June 12, 2025
JUNEAU, Alaska — Senate Republicans are supercharging an effort to sell huge swaths of public lands to private developers in Alaska to pay for extending Donald Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.
June 12, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Utah Senator Mike Lee is supercharging an effort to sell huge swaths of public lands to private developers in Utah to pay for extending Donald Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.