The environmental group The Sierra Club has led opposition to the group's recommendation to explore ANWAR.
Michael Brune, head of the Sierra Club, said the negative impact of shale fracking is underestimated.
"GM keeps telling Americans to wait--and wait and wait, " says the Sierra Club's Daniel Becker .
Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global warming project, takes a darker view.
Jennifer Schwab, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sierra Club Green Home, and Bonnie Nixon, Executive Director, The Sustainability Consortium.
The Sierra Club, Electric Drive Transportation Association and others have also partnered in presenting the movie.
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Note to the head of development at Sierra Club: add Tony Hayward to your speed dial.
The Sierra Club report cites examples of what it calls "intelligent" and "irresponsible" development in every state.
Most Americans would celebrate the news, but the Sierra Club and other environmental activist groups are protesting it.
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The Sierra Club, which now has 750, 000 members (compared with 114, 000 in 1970), can still mobilise individual Americans.
"Oil development cannot be done in an 'environmentally sensitive' manner, " said a Sierra Club statement on its Web site.
Like, for example, EarthJustice (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund), Greenpeace USA, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Brower served as the first executive director of the Sierra Club, a position he held from 1952 through 1969.
The judge liked the Sierra Club's science, but it ruled in the end in favour of the Forest Service.
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The legal action was brought by two US groups, the Basel Action Network (BAN) and Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice.
Much of the groundwork was done with help from environmentalists, including Adam Werbach, a former president of the Sierra Club.
The plaintiffs in the Monterey shale lawsuit were the local chapters of the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity.
The Sierra Club, the anti-climate change consortium 350.org, and the civil rights organization the Hip Hop Caucus put together the rally.
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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In one instance, the Sierra Club took the federal Forest Service to court over the management of two forests in Wisconsin.
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Garvin Jabush, Cofounder and CIO of Green Alpha Advisors, and manager of the Sierra Club Green Alpha Portfolio is one such bull.
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There are plenty of examples of nongovernmental organizations collaborating with companies: Sierra Club with Clorox, Conservation International with Starbucks, WWF with Unilever.
The immigration row also shows up holes in the Sierra Club's structure.
And the Sierra Club insists its anti-sprawl campaign isn't in conflict with the American dream of owning a home of your own.
The incident was videotaped, and footage was used in a television ad the Sierra Club was running against Riggs in his district.
Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, says the shift was accelerated by the low price of natural gas.
The Sierra Club now boasts 572, 000 members, up from 181, 000 in 1980.
"It goes completely against common sense, " said the Sierra Club's Brendan Bell.
Others besides Mr Brower and the Sierra Club support draining the lake.
But someone has to speak for the river, replies the Sierra Club.
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