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.
The Sierra Club, Electric Drive Transportation Association and others have also partnered in presenting the movie.
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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.
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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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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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.
If you want to check out how fuelish your county is, check out the interactive Google map the Sierra Club put together.
Organizations like the Sierra Club use the tax loophole that allows these groups to exist in the shadows for some of their work.
Another person who was involved with the creation of the Pittsburgh center suggested that the Sierra Club and others are missing a key point.
"Congress is a place where good ideas go to die, " Melinda Pierce, legislative director for the environmental group the Sierra Club, said last month.
For sprawl to be contained, the Sierra Club says, citizens have to get involved -- seizing the initiative for growth from politicians and developers.
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