"Oil development cannot be done in an 'environmentally sensitive' manner, " said a Sierra Club statement on its Web site.
Brower served as the first executive director of the Sierra Club, a position he held from 1952 through 1969.
Gov. Brown proposed shielding the train from such environmental lawsuits but abandoned the idea after the Sierra Club threw a tantrum.
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The Sierra Club has a long history of endorsing Democratic candidates.
The Sierra Club, a serious green lobby, is not arguing against the tribes' water rights, but it says there are better ways of getting the water.
The incident was videotaped, and footage was used in a television ad the Sierra Club was running against Riggs in his district.
In the 1998 case, the Sierra Club successfully challenged a private landowner on the Moose River in Hamilton County to establish the right of paddlers to cross private tracts.
In one example among many, the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit challenging a 100-turbine wind development in mountains north of the Mojave Desert.
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Things may come to a head in November with a ballot initiative, put forward by the Sierra Club, an environmental group, to ban any new building in a ring around the city.
Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.
Much of the groundwork was done with help from environmentalists, including Adam Werbach, a former president of the Sierra Club.
"This is the first official commitment they are making to stop burning coal at these units, " said Nachy Kanfer, a deputy director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
Another person who was involved with the creation of the Pittsburgh center suggested that the Sierra Club and others are missing a key point.
From helping to protect Yosemite and millions of acres of wilderness to the more recent work of building powerful alliances with labor and impacted communities, Sierra Club volunteers and staff have played a pivotal role in many of the most important environmental victories over the past century.
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If a (Republican?) president directs his EPA administrator to back off, Environmental Defense, the Sierra Club and everyone else in the multibillion dollar global warming lobby will be in court in a second, arguing that the Supremes were quite clear: endangerment means regulation.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Urban sprawl is a problem that Americans could easily solve, concludes a report on sprawl recently released by the Sierra Club.
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Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global warming project, takes a darker view.
The Sierra Club and other environmental activist groups have sent a letter to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie urging him to sign legislation banning the production of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing techniques.
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In addition to the convention and the Arizona Democratic primary, Election.com has conducted legally binding online elections for a number of private organizations, including as the Sierra Club, and the United Nations employees credit union.
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Instead, the Sierra Club's Ms Bahr pins her hopes on a set of strict regulations drafted by the club, which will be put to the voters in November next year.
The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which began a little more than 10 years ago in response to the Bush administration's plan to build hundreds of coal-fired power plants, has successfully opposed the vast majority of proposed new plants and helped to retire 130 of the dirtiest, most-polluting existing coal plants in the United States.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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The Environmental Defense Fund responded to the Sierra Club criticism by noting that the new plan is meant to be a complement to strong regulations, not a replacement.
Mr. DAN BECKER (Director, Global Warming Project, Sierra Club): The auto companies by merely producing the vehicle qualify for a loophole that allows them to produce more gas guzzlers.
"The wildfires, storms and droughts we've seen over the past few years have shown us we need to make even steeper reductions in emissions that were proposed a few years ago, " says Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.
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GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.
Neither Texas nor the federal government restricts where facilities storing ammonia or chlorine can operate, said Neil Carman, a former inspector for the environmental-quality commission who is now the director of Sierra Club's clean-air program in Texas.
Knott reiterated a bedrock theme of the conference, co-sponsored by Greater Atlanta Home Builders, Sierra Club, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and others.
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