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Also in 2008, the Sierra Club endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President, citing "his strong record of support for clean air, wetlands protection, and clean energy."[15]
Between 2007 and 2010, the Sierra Club accepted over 25 million US dollars in donations from the gas industry, mostly from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, one of the biggest gas drilling companies in the US and a firm heavily involved in fracking.[16]
In November 2011, Sierra Club chairman Carl Pope stepped down amid discontent about the Clorox deal and other issues.[17]
In January 2013, executive director Michael Brune announced [18] that the Sierra Club would officially participate in the first civil disobedience action in its 120-year history as part of the ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, stating, โwe are watching a global crisis unfold before our eyes, and to stand aside and let it happen โ even though we know how to stop it โ would be unconscionable." On 13 February 2013, Michael Brune was arrested along with forty-eight people, including civil rights leader Julian Bond and NASA climate scientist James Hansen.[19][20]
In May 2015, the Sierra Club appointed its first black president of the board of directors, Aaron Mair.[21]
The Sierra Club endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[22]
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