Bush administration, the Sierra Club was a co-sponsor of pro-abortion events. It also joined a couple of anti-war coalitions that opposed the war in Iraq. Michael Brune serves as the executive director of the Sierra Club. He formerly worked at the Rainforest Action Network. The organization has an elected and all volunteer board of directors. Aaron Mair serves as the president while Robin Mann serves as the vice president. Susana Reyes serves as the secretary and Liz Walsh serves as treasurer.
Although the Sierra Club itself has not embraced eco-terrorism, it has attracted some who have. In , Paul Watson was elected to its board of directors. Watson is infamous for using steel-hulled ships and ramming and sinking whaling vessels. The Sierra Club Foundation is the tax-exempt charitable arm that provides financial support for the Sierra Club. The foundation and club are heavily backed by numerous corporations. The foundation is also heavily backed by other foundations, left-wing organizations, and even some government agencies.
The Sierra Club is a c 4 organization that can engage in independent political expenditures. Among the expenditures the club made in the election was a poll from Public Policy Polling. The club also contracted out voter contact to Winning Connections, a Washington D. House members. In , the Sierra Club was critical the effort by Democrats to retain the Senate and take control of the House of Representatives. In the election, the club did not support a single Republican candidate. Its biggest target was U.
Senate candidate Joni Ernst R-Iowa. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry in He won. In , the club supported the reelection of Democratic President Barack Obama. Senate race in New Mexico. Today, the Maryland Chapter oversees Sierra Club activities in Maryland, and has around 15, members.
The chapter includes local Groups that organize Sierra Club activities in a county or region of the state. Each chapter of the Sierra Club, including the Maryland Chapter, has an Executive Committee Ex Com composed of volunteer members who manage and direct the chapter's activities and resources. The very first activities organized by the Maryland Chapter, back when it was still the Atlantic Chapter, were outings such as nature walks, hikes, luncheons, socials, and seminars.
The Maryland Chapter and all of its Groups have continued this tradition. Furthermore, the Maryland Chapter and its Groups continue the conservation work started by John Muir in In the late s and early s, the Maryland Potomac Chapter worked to survey its region for sites that could be designated wilderness areas and protected from development.
More recently, in , pressure from Potomac Chapter members encouraged the Maryland General Assembly to enact landmark legislation on the Chesapeake Bay. This legislation created a state policy of protection for the Chesapeake Bay and formed a Critical Areas Commission to implement the policy. Despite the Sierra Clubs purported support for solar energy, it has sued to stop solar energy projects from going forward.
In Sierra Club v. California Energy Commission, the Club alleged that the state of California failed to sufficiently analyze the proposed impact of the project on the desert tortoise—an endangered species.
But despite all these problems and contradictions, the Sierra Club asserts that wind and solar energy are the only forms of energy we should use. Genetically modified food crops have been heralded for their environmental benefits, including the ability to grow more food on less land, and a decreased need for pesticides.
As international food policy expert Dr. Never mind that testing for something unknown is logically impossible the only way to avoid a completely unknown risk is never to do anything for the first time. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology. Extremists in the environmental movement from the rich nations seem to be doing everything they can to stop scientific progress in its tracks.
There was a time when the Sierra Club was almost entirely concerned with straight-ahead conservation of natural resources. But that time has come and gone. The Sierra Club has been pushing policies to abolish so-called single-use plastic items from the United States.
Much of its activism against plastic has been done through online advocacy on plastic phones and computers , but the group has also pushed for anti-plastic legislation, as well. In one campaign, the Sierra Club is pushing for plastic water bottles to be banned from National Parks in the U. The policy had briefly been implemented in 23 parks throughout the country, including the deserts of Zion National Park. But who would want water in a desert, anyway? The Trump administration overturned the ban because officials did not believe it was right to ban water bottles while sugary sodas and sports drinks could still be sold.
Officials did not want to make it more difficult for park visitors to make healthy decisions. In , House Democrats reintroduced a bill to codify the ban on water bottles in the National Parks. The Sierra Club has been supportive of the legislation and circulated a petition to recruit additional support for the policy. This is not the only effort the Sierra Club has in place to abolish water bottles. The group has put together several advertisements featuring D-list celebrities urging people not to own bottled water.
While the Sierra Club is quick to note that climate change can lead to natural disasters like wildfires , the group has not acknowledged the role that water bottles play in addressing natural disasters or other emergencies. The Sierra Club conveniently left out the fact that FEMA keeps a stockpile of water bottles for natural disasters and urges families to keep their own supply for emergencies. The Sierra Club also ignored the fact that people in cities like Flint, Michigan, depend on bottled water to keep them safe when the tap water supply is unsafe because of contaminants like lead or E.
The group has been quick to demonize single-use plastics, even the products keeping people safe during the COVID pandemic. The Sierra Club has used its deep pockets to push its extreme environmentalist agenda for decades and shows no signs of stopping. With this growing influence, the Sierra Club and its fellow environmental activists could successfully push through regulations that cost our economy additional billions in compliance costs—costs that will trickle down to every American.
The [Sierra] Club could begin to include animal rights positions in decades to come as members and the American public acknowledge the impact of our high animal protein diet on sustainability. Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.
Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license… All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
The Sierra Club made the Nature Conservancy look reasonable. I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Earth First! I applaud them for standing up and taking action. Sierra Club Organization. Finances Related People Donations. Path to Radicalism The Sierra Club was originally founded in , but grew dramatically under the leadership of radical activist David Browser in the s and s.
Suing for Profit The Sierra Club is no stranger to the courtroom. Kerry Emanuel, an Atmospheric Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, responded to such criticism of nuclear power: No energy system is without downsides. Unrealistic Belief in Solar and Wind Energy Of all the renewable energy sources in the United States, water currently provides the most electricity.
Anti-Technology Crusade Genetically modified food crops have been heralded for their environmental benefits, including the ability to grow more food on less land, and a decreased need for pesticides. In , the Sierra Club joined the Center for Biological Diversity to stop hunters from using lead ammunition, arguing that it was harmful to the California Condor. The Arizona Department of Fish and Wildlife intervened in the lawsuit, arguing that a mandatory ban would actually hurt efforts to conserve the condor population.
After successfully getting the project slashed by more than 70 percent, and therefore depriving inhabitants of much-needed water, the Sierra Club lawyers moved the goalposts and demanded the project be cut by another 55 percent.
They just simply want to stop development and growth. And the way you do that in the West is to stop water. In and , the two groups sued the U. Department of the Interior to force ranching families out of the Mojave National Preserve.
These ranchers actually owned grazing rights to the preserve; some families had been raising cattle there for over a century. No matter. Pushing Plastic Prohibition The Sierra Club has been pushing policies to abolish so-called single-use plastic items from the United States.
Moving Forward The Sierra Club has used its deep pockets to push its extreme environmentalist agenda for decades and shows no signs of stopping. Former Secretary of the Board.
Notable Quotes All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. Then you write the history. Fact is, I think people in Montana can get along without strawberries in December. In some cases burning a target is the most effective way of decommissioning it.
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