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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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

Oak Glen, CA -- It's cool and beautiful up here in the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains. I'm looking out over some of the sunniest terrain in the world, though, and I can survey much of Congressman Jerry Lewis's...

Scattered Around the West -- The cleanup of the Bush administration's phenomenal mismanagement of the nation's forests continues to grind forward in federal courts. Thus far the Obama administration has not yet put in place new leadership for the Forest...

San Francisco -- Chevron's CEO, Dave O'Reilly, and I debated for an hour last night at the Commonwealth Club. We got to the bottom of some differences and found some common points -- but didn't come to closure on some...

New York, NY -- Fourteen years ago, the Nigerian junta was preparing to execute Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa for his organizing activities against the environmental devastation being visited on his people by oil development -- the Shell Corporation in particular....

Washington, DC -- Back when I wrote my book Strategic Ignorance, in the spring of 2004, George Bush had stripped one or more layers of environmental protection from over 100 million acres. That's more land than Teddy Roosevelt, the king...