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Carl Pope
Executive Director, The Sierra Club
Recent Activity
San Francisco -- For eight years under George Bush, America's wilderness faced a systematic assault from the federal government. By the end of the first Bush term, more than 100 million acres that previously enjoyed federal protection had lost it....
July 2, 2009, 1:18 PM
Almost, But Not Quite, Mr. President
Washington, D.C. -- President Obama delivered some stellar remarks yesterday after the passage by the House of H.R. 2454, the climate and energy bill championed by Congressmen Waxman and Markey and steered through a narrowly divided House by Speaker Pelosi....
June 30, 2009, 5:01 PM
Not the End. Not the Beginning of the End. Perhaps the End of the Beginning
San Francisco -- I was sitting in the annual Sierra Club staff awards ceremony, listening to President Allison Chin read the Board of Directors' commendation to Greg Haegele, my deputy, awarding Greg the John Muir award, the Sierra Club's highest...
June 27, 2009, 12:29 AM
Coal River, WV -- I hope that when I am 94 I am able and eager to do exactly what retired coal miner and former Congressman Ken Hechler was doing in Coal River yesterday: getting arrested for the cause he...
June 24, 2009, 4:41 PM
Cleveland, OH -- Monday was the 40th anniversary of the environmental disaster that gave America the Clean Water Act -- the day the Cuyahoga River caught fire. But memories on the Supreme Court are either short or very long. In...
June 23, 2009, 9:01 AM
Carl Pope is Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Since Pope’s appointment in 1992, Sierra Club has added 150,000 new members, bringing the total membership to 700,000. Pope has a distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership.
Prior to his work with the Sierra Club, Pope served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause and Public Interest Economics, Inc. He is the co-author of Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress, and other books including Hazardous Waste in America and Sahib, an American Misadventure in India. Pope was educated at Harvard University and spent two years in the Peace Corps in India on graduation.
