Commentary Sierra Club: Focus Needs to Be on Clean Energy Jobs, Ending Oil Addiction by Gary Kopycinski on March 11, 2011 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 11, 2011. The Sierra Club’s executive director Michael Brune released the following statement today regarding President Obama’s press conference on concerns about rising oil prices.