Sierra Club

Green Watch
Renewable Energy . . . or Maybe Not
The richest American environmental nonprofits are strong promoters of weather-dependent energy. Nearly all of their webpages have images of wind turbines and solar panels, visually demonstrating how much land they…
by Ken Braun on May 30, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on May 16, 2025

Green Watch
Nuclear Energy: Rich Climate NGOs Have Nuked Clean Power
The Trump administration wants to quadruple American nuclear power output by 2050. There is no physical challenge to this goal, as France—now the world’s seventh largest economy—launched an aggressive buildout…
by Ken Braun on May 15, 2025

Philanthropy
IRS Revokes Sierra Club’s (c)(3) Status, in 1966
Earlier this month, there were rampant rumors that President Donald Trump was going to sign an executive order revoking the nonprofit status of environmental organizations. Since no president can really just revoke…
by Michael E. Hartmann on May 15, 2025

Government Accountability, Green Watch
Biden Administration Approved $485 Million for Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
During the last half of the Biden administration, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm began talking up the virtues of reliable, safe, and carbon-free nuclear energy. In August 2024, she called for…
by Ken Braun on April 10, 2025

Green Watch
Foreign-Funded Plastic Lawfare
A foreign charity funded by an Australian billionaire has paid an American law firm to represent four tax-exempt environmental activist groups in a lawsuit against a ExxonMobil to a special…
by Robert Stilson on March 31, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on February 21, 2025

Organization Trends
Nowhere to Live? Blame the Government
For those wondering how America’s unaffordable housing market became exactly that, Pacific Legal Foundation vice president James S. Burling has an answer in his new book. Many of the root…
by Robert Stilson on September 17, 2024

Green Watch
Oakland, California: High Crime, High Energy Prices, and a Lot of Left-Wing Nonprofits
Oakland, California, is home to a disproportionate share of America’s stridently left-wing nonprofits. Twenty-six of the most strident examples have a combined annual revenue of more than $566 million. That…
by Ken Braun on August 13, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024