Bio:
Carl Pope became executive director of the Sierra Club in 1992. In his nearly 30-year tenure there, he has served as associate conservation director, political director and conservation director. During Mr. Pope's time as executive director, the Sierra Club added 150,000 new members—growing to 700,000—and has helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness, including the California Desert, Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and California's Giant Sequoias National Monument. The Club brought the litigation challenging the right of Vice-President Cheney's Energy Task Force to conduct policy-making in secret negotiations with major energy interests. More recently in Mr. Pope's tenure, the Sierra Club led the charge in pressuring the Bush Administration to accept new rules that would lower the amount of arsenic in America's drinking water and mercury in our fisheries. Outside of the Sierra Club, Mr. Pope has had a distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership.
