Ian Brickey

Ian Brickey is Associate Director for Federal Communications, working with Sierra Club's Conservation & Outdoors campaign.

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Sierra Club Applauds Interior Department Announcements on Bison Management, Lands Protection

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland issued a secretarial order creating a new program to restore bison herds and preserve large landscapes throughout the iconic species’…

ADVISORY: D.C. Rally to Oppose the Willow Oil and Gas Project

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, a coalition of groups is rallying in Washington, D.C. to urge President Biden to oppose ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil and gas operation on Alaska’s North Slope.…

Groups object in court to Alaska magistrate’s recommendation to uphold a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule allowing oil and gas companies to harm already threatened Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— We filed an objection in U.S. District Court today over a magistrate’s findings and recommendation that would let stand a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule allowing oil and gas…

Legal Filing Targets North Dakota’s Latest Lawsuit to Force More Oil, Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands

BISMARCK, ND — Climate and conservation groups defended the Biden administration in a brief filed today responding to a lawsuit brought by North Dakota seeking to force the federal government to hold…

Conservation Groups to Defend Biden Administration Postponement of Oil, Gas Lease Sales 

Casper, WY – Seventeen groups represented by Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center moved to intervene today to defend the Biden administration’s postponement of several oil and gas…

Celebrating 50 Years of Endangered Species Act Success

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Conservation and wildlife advocacy groups are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Endangered Species Act this year, commemorating five decades of effective and…

Federal appeals court rejects oil and gas drilling and fracking in northwest New Mexico’s Greater Chaco region

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the Biden administration’s defense of unchecked oil and gas fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, ruling the U.S. Interior…

Willow Project Would Be a Disaster for Alaska and the Climate

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior issued a key environmental assessment regarding ConocoPhillips’ oil and gas operation in the Western Arctic, commonly called the Willow…

Sierra Club Welcomes EPA’s Final Determination Protecting Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine

WASHINGTON, DC – After over a decade of contestation, the EPA came to a Final Determination to protect Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine, a proposed copper and gold mine which would have wide-ranging,…

Sierra Club Statement on Launch of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition

On the second anniversary of the announcement of the Biden Administration’s America the Beautiful initiative to protect 30 percent of lands and waters in the United States by 2030, a new coalition…