Ian Brickey is Associate Director for Federal Communications, working with Sierra Club's Conservation & Outdoors campaign.
WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, Senator Martin Heinrich and Senator Thom Tillis re-introduced the Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA). This historic bipartisan bill would invest nearly $1.4 billion…
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Biden Administration began the process of crafting new rules that could fundamentally change how the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) mission addresses the climate and…
SAN FRANCISCO — Conservation groups filed an appeal today in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a lower court ruling allowing exploratory drilling in California’s Sierra Nevada…
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the White House announced President Biden would designate Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada and Castner Range in Texas as the country’s newest national monuments. The designation…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland withdrew a proposed land exchange between the department and King Cove Corporation in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six groups filed a lawsuit today in U.S. District Court charging the Interior Department, multiple agencies, and agency officials with violating an array of laws when authorizing…
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Biden Administration announced it had approved ConocoPhillip’s proposed oil and gas drilling operation on Alaska’s North Slope, commonly called the Willow project. The…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior issued a final decision granting approval to ConocoPhillips’ proposed oil and gas operation in the Western Arctic, commonly called the Willow…
WASHINGTON, DC – This afternoon, reports citing White House sources announced that the Biden Administration was set to announce protections for 16 million acres of landscapes in the National…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Sen. Joe Manchin announced he would oppose the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis as the U.S. Department of the Interior’s principal deputy assistant secretary for land and…