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After mounting pressure from staff, managers and volunteers, the Sierra Club put executive director Ben Jealous on leave this month.
Ben Jealous, who joined the environmental group in 2023, has clashed with some employees and the organization’s union.
Ben Jealous, the former Maryland gubernatorial candidate turned Sierra Club executive director, is “on leave” from his post, ...
A prominent national environmental organization is without a permanent leader as it scrambles to fight the Trump ...
When John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he couldn’t have imagined the world we live in now — one where millions of ...
Employees have urged the board to oust the green group’s leader, citing concerns about the organization’s management.
Following the deaths or abandonment of five sea lion pups at La Jolla Cove, members of the Sierra Club and its Seal Society ...
After a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club more than a decade ago, the owner of a Santa Clara County quarry and cement plant will remove thousands of tons of mining waste from the creek’s waters.
In a protest against the construction of a pipeline through Bernheim Forest, the Sierra Club, alongside other environmental advocates, held a New Orleans-style wake Sunday.
The Sierra Club was founded May 28, 1892, with John Muir as its first president. Its first order of business was to defeat a proposal to reduce the boundaries of Yosemite National Park.
The Sierra Club has taken a number of steps in the right direction in recent months, she noted, including naming the first Latino in its 128-year history to lead its board of directors.
The Sierra Club’s 27-page language guide, which George Packer dissected in the Atlantic last week, sits atop a pile of other recent handbooks that seek to forcibly modernize speech through a ...