NEW YORK — The Sierra Club has had a rough slog.
Over the summer, the environmental group ousted its executive director after years of staff infighting and several rounds of layoffs. That followed the resignation of the organization’s last boss a few years earlier as the nonprofit grappled with workplace problems.
Enter Loren Blackford, who wants to repair the damage.
She’s Sierra Club’s pick to calm the waters internally as the green group — and the environmental movement more broadly — brace for several more years of external battles against the Trump administration.