Lindsey Botts
Digital Editor at Sierra Magazine
Conservation enthusiast. Nature lover. digital editor at @Sierra_Magazine. Formal environmental reporter @azcentral. https://t.co/s5tS9pBrfP
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1 month ago |
sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts |Jon Stich
When I was a teen in Jacksonville, Florida, a minister taught my youth group how to rock climb. First he took us to West Virginia and then to Linville Gorge in North Carolina. That’s when I fell in love with the mountains. I moved to the Asheville area after graduating college in 1984, the same year I started volunteering with the Sierra Club. We’re very lucky in western North Carolina. The Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests are managed as one unit, covering 1.1 million acres.
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1 month ago |
sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts
Since the beginning of the year, President Trump has urged Congress to pass “one big, beautiful bill,” referring to a legislative package that would extend and expand his 2017 tax cuts. Shortly after, some lawmakers began floating the idea of selling public land to help offset those cuts.
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1 month ago |
sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts
Since the beginning of the year, President Trump has urged Congress to pass “one big, beautiful bill,” referring to a legislative package that would extend and expand his 2017 tax cuts. Shortly after, some lawmakers began floating the idea of selling public land to help offset those cuts. On Tuesday night, the House Natural Resources Committee delivered on that suggestion, putting forward a legislative package that authorizes the sale of over 11,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.
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2 months ago |
sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts |Maria Hoey
The carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturing steel are so massive that they surpass the European Union’s entire output. This ubiquitous building material, along with carbon-intensive cement (the base material in concrete), frames nearly every skyscraper, industrial facility, and transportation hub, making construction responsible for one-sixth of the world’s CO2 emissions.
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2 months ago |
sierraclub.org | Lindsey Botts |Miguel Porlan
1.6°C: The global average warming above preindustrial levels reached in 2024, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That was the first year the number exceeded 1.5°C (2.7°F). 220: US solar capacity in gigawatts at the end of 2024. This was a 24 percent increase from the capacity in 2023 and enough to keep the lights on in over 35 million homes. 52: The percentage of Americans who oppose withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, according to an AP poll.
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Three years after Idaho expanded wolf hunting, hunters are waging an all out slaughter campaign against wolves. In the state's most recent report, the state revealed that hunters are killing pups as young as weeks old. https://t.co/5TrO6rNOr2