Courtney Bourgoin is a press secretary for Sierra Club's Our Wild America campaign. She works and lives in Chicago, IL.
Washington, DC-- Today, Rep. Lee and Sen. Hirono introduced the Women and Climate Act of 2019-- legislation aimed at developing coordinated strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change on…
Washington, DC-- This morning, the Pentagon authorized Congress to move $1 billion ofappropriated funding to build more walls on the US-Mexico border following Donald Trump’s emergency declaration.…
Washington, DC-- Today, the Sierra Club Gender Equity Program and Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) launched the U.S. Accelerator for Grassroots Women Environmental Leaders-- supporting a diverse group of…
Jackson, WY — A conservation coalition filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today, asking a judge to order the agency to issue a long-overdue plan to phase out elk feeding…
Washington, DC-- Today, despite the House and Senate passage of a resolution to overturn Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, the President vetoed the bill. The move comes one day after the…
Las Vegas, NV-- Today, the US Forest Service issued their final Environmental Assessment on Nevada’s Ruby Mountains-- denying the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) request to offer parcels for…
Washington, DC-- Today, President Trump released his annual budget proposal which included some of the steepest proposed cuts yet to federal agencies that protect the health of the public and…
Washington, DC-- Today, the House Oversight Committee is hosting a hearing on the PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemical) crisis polluting communities and harming public health across the…
Mission, TX-- Today, 12 U.S. Military veterans from the Sierra Club Military Outdoors team and two activists from the Tohono O’odham Nation will begin peacefully camping in at the National Butterfly…
Washington, DC-- Tomorrow at 10:00 am, Harlem resident and army veteran Mark A. Favors will testify before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on…