The Sierra Club plans to launch a “massive FOIA operation” to keep tabs on the incoming Trump administration, the green group’s leader said Thursday.
The club will be watching President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming appointees “very, very closely,” Executive Director Ben Jealous told reporters Thursday. “You can anticipate that we will have a massive FOIA operation up and running, and we will go after them very aggressively.”
Environmental organizations are planning to play defense for another four years after doing battle against the Trump administration the last time around. Trump has pledged dramatic rollbacks of the Biden administration’s environmental policies and cuts to regulatory agencies.
During the previous Trump administration, Sierra Club and other outside groups used the Freedom of Information Act to monitor the communications of executive branch officials.
