Corporate Crime Reporter was hot on the trail of the story when it broke in Time.ДЇrom the start, BruneвЂ™s declaration seemed less an acknowledgement of wrongdoing than an attempt to minister to a looming public relations problem. I hoped to live up to the moniker you bestowed upon me.Д«ut more than a month has past since your executive director, Michael Brune, admitted in Time magazine that the Sierra Club had, between 20, clandestinely accepted $25 million from the fracking industry, with most of the donations coming from Chesapeake Energy. Your name appears with mine on the flaps of my book jackets, in the biography that introduces me at the speakerвЂ™s podium, and in the press release that announced, last fall, that I was one of the lucky recipients of a $100,000 Heinz Award for my research and writing on the environment. You gave a glowing review of my first book, Living Downstream-a review that appeared in the pages of Sierra magazine and hailed me as вЂњthe new Rachel Carson.вЂќ Since 1999 that phrase has linked us together in all the press materials that my publicist sends out. No right way is easy.We must risk our lives to save them.ДЇor years we had a great relationship based on mutual admiration. We invite you to read the letter, which testifies to the confusion, fear, and outrage thatвЂ™s pouring out of communities in gasland-but which is also, importantly, a bold call to courage.

(In 2010, Michael Brune, the Sierra ClubвЂ™s new executive director, refused further donations from the company.) The story prompted Steingraber to write an open letter to the Club, posted below.

In February, Time magazine broke the news that the Sierra Club, an old and respected environmental defender, had, for three years, accepted $25 million from Chesapeake Energy, one of the largest gas-drillers in the world.

Her columns in recent issues of the magazine have frequently been dedicated to the issue and last year, after receiving a Heinz Award for her work, Steingraber donated the cash prize to the fight against fracking in her home state of New York. Long-time friend and Orion columnist Sandra Steingraber has been particularly vocal about the dangers of fracking. The more we learn about a gas-drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing-or вЂњfrackingвЂќ-the more we see it as a zenith of violence and disconnect, impulses that seem to be gathering on the horizon like thunder clouds. Orion вЂs search for a more truthful relationship between humans and the natural world occasionally calls for the expression of outrage.

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