Gabby Kientzle (formerly Brown) is the Sierra Club's Director of Federal Communications. She is based in Washington, DC.
Washington, DC -- Today, a leaked draft of the Interior Department’s five-year strategic plan for 2018-2022 showed the agency prioritizing increasing oil and gas drilling on national public lands.…
New Orleans, LA -- Today, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans to put up 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico up for oil and gas leasing. The largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in…
St. Paul, MN -- Today, in surrebuttal testimony submitted to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), the Minnesota Department of Commerce (DoC) confirmed its original finding that Enbridge’s…
New Orleans, LA -- It is now estimated that an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from a ruptured pipeline could be nearly twice as large as originally reported. When the spill was first discovered, the…
Washington, DC -- Today, the State Department granted a cross-border permit for Enbridge’s Line 67, or Alberta Clipper, tar sands pipeline expansion. Since 2015, Enbridge has already been moving an…
Pinckney, MI -- On Friday night, it was discovered that the Rover pipeline has been spilling gasoline in an ongoing, days-long discharge into a Pinckney, Michigan wetland.The spill was not reported…
Great Falls, MT -- Today, environmental and landowner groups argued in opposition to an attempt by the Trump administration and Canadian oil giant TransCanada to dismiss a lawsuit against the…
San Francisco, CA -- Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California struck down Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke’s attempt to delay a commonsense rule designed to limit methane…
Washington, DC -- In a document that is expected to be officially filed in the Federal Register tomorrow, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will propose a one year delay of a rule designed to limit…
Washington, DC -- This morning, as Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan testified before the US Senate Banking Committee about the bank’s recent scandals, DC residents urged elected officials to hold Wells…