Director, Public Lands Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., Oberlin College
Ellen runs campaigns to protect America’s beautiful places, from local beachfronts to remote mountain peaks. Prior to her current role, Ellen worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.
Bank of America is walking back its commitment to not finance oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting this fragile ecosystem at risk.
Activists gathered near Forest Service headquarters in D.C. to deliver comments calling for mature and old-growth forest protections.
Amazon, Costco, Walmart and other major toilet paper brands can and should do more to prevent forest degradation
The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management should prohibit logging of older forests and trees on public lands and include forests as part of the solution to addressing the climate emergency, drought and wildlife extinction
Oil and gas activity have long threatened the last undeveloped portions of the Greater Chaco Landscape
