Gabby Kientzle (formerly Brown) is the Sierra Club's Director of Federal Communications. She is based in Washington, DC.
Ottawa, Canada -- This morning, the Canadian government announced a plan to buy out Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion. The controversial project faces opposition…
Great Falls, Mont. – Environmental and landowner groups today argued in federal court that the Trump administration’s rubber-stamp approval of a cross-border permit for the proposed Keystone XL…
Columbus, OH -- As the Ohio House of Representatives prepares to vote tomorrow morning on a bill that would allow oil and gas waste, including fracking fluids, to be sold as a “commodity,” a newly…
Columbus, OH -- Yesterday, a bill that would allow oil and gas waste, including fracking fluids, to be sold as a “commodity” passed through the Ohio House Energy & Natural Resources Committee.…
Washington, DC -- Today, a group of institutional investors totaling $2.52 trillion in assets sent a message to oil and gas companies and the banks that fund them that drilling in the Arctic National…
Representatives from the Gwich’in Nation, national environmental groups, and institutional investors will host a telephonic press briefing on Monday, May 14 at 2pm ET to unveil a new effort to defend…
This week, the U.S. government fined Enbridge $1.8 million over the Canadian pipeline company’s failure to meet inspection deadlines for a number of its oil pipelines running through the Midwest. The…
From April 27 to May 1, an international coalition of U.S. and European activists called attention to the global consequences of the proposed Rio Grande Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal,…
Washington, DC -- The Department of the Interior today unveiled a proposal, to be posted to the Federal Register next week, that would roll back offshore drilling safety rules. The blowout preventer…
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Today, the Bureau of Land Management in Montana deferred all 223 parcels subject to an oil and gas lease sale planned for June 12. The decision to postpone the lease sale results…