Ellen
Montgomery

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. She sits on the Steering Committee of the Arctic Defense Campaign and co-coordinates the Climate Forests Campaign. Ellen previously worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign and managed grassroots campaign offices across the country. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.

Posts by Ellen Montgomery
How Copper Mines Pollute

Toxic threats

How Copper Mines Pollute

Toxic chemicals associated with copper mines can pollute the environment, causing serious harm to plants, animals and people.

Tell Home Depot: Protect the boreal forest

Forests

Tell Home Depot: Protect the boreal forest

The majestic trees of the boreal forest are being cut down at a shocking rate—and many end up on a shelf at Home Depot. We’re calling on them to stop.

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