New Lawsuit Aims to Protect Wolves in Northern Rocky Mountains
BOZEMAN, MT — Four conservation and animal protection groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying their petition to protect gray wolves in the northern Rocky…
Ian Brickey is Associate Director for Federal Communications, working with Sierra Club's Conservation & Outdoors campaign.
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Sierra Club Statement on Biden Administration Protections for Thompson Divide
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Biden Administration announced new protections for critical public lands in Colorado. An order issued by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland protects more than 200,…
White House Misses Opportunity to Undo Trump Legacy of Attacks on ESA
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Biden Administration announced new revisions to Endangered Species Act regulations that improve some protections for imperiled wildlife, but leave intact many…
Appeals court orders Fish and Wildlife Service to fix legal problems with regulation allowing oil and gas operators to harm polar bears
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must correct legal errors with a regulation that allows oil and gas companies to harass Southern Beaufort…
Sierra Club: GOP Adds Antiquities Act, Public Lands Protections to Energy Week Targets
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held a legislative hearing to consider multiple bills that would weaken conservation protections and make it easier for Big…
Sierra Club Statement on February Wildfires
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A winter wildfire in the Texas panhandle has grown into the largest blaze in the state’s history.The Smokehouse Creek fire has grown to more than 1,700 square miles in Texas…
Sierra Club Statement on Giant Sequoia National Monument Lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO — Environmental groups are seeking legal remedies to prevent potentially harmful logging projects on federal public lands in California.Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit in U.S…
Coalition Lays Out Roadmap for Protecting 30 Percent of U.S. Lands and Waters
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of hundreds of environmental groups, nonprofits, and social betterment organizations have unveiled new recommendations for advancing the biggest conservation goal…
Forest Service urged to bolster protections for forests in proposed policy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tens of thousands of people and more than 170 organizations called on the U.S. Forest Service to strengthen its proposal to conserve old growth trees and forests on federal…
Sierra Club Statement on Advancement of U.S. Forest Service Proposal to Protect Old-Growth Forests
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States Forest Service concluded a public comment period seeking input on the development of a change to plans overseeing all national forests that would…