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Get involved with our efforts on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
May 16, 2012
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The Angeles Chapter is forming a Task Force to ensure safe operations of the San Onofre nuclear power plant and to make sure its federal license to continue operating isn’t renewed. Learn more.
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When fracking becomes a local issue
May 11, 2012
In a rush to keep developing more natural gas and oil, oil and gas companies are relying more heavily on a technique of stimulation and extraction known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Using this process, companies that develop gas and...
Help Save the Santa Clara River!
May 11, 2012
Help Save the Santa Clara River!
Tuesday, May 15th at 9:30am.
Come testify at a hearing against Newhall Ranch Phase 2 / Mission Village.
Join us to oppose Newhall Ranch's 2nd phase “Mission Village...
It's Time To Expand Los Angeles' Recycling Efforts
May 10, 2012
Hillary Gordon whe heads the Angeles Chapter Zero Waste Committee protested at the rally.
photo by Tom Politeo
“Shame on them!” cried labor, environmental and community activists assembled in front of American Reclamation’s...
Proposed Ballfields Run Afoul Of Griffith Park Vision
May 10, 2012
Creating two youth baseball fields at Crystal Springs in Griffith Park runs contary
to the benefactor's vision for the park as a place of rest for "the plain people".
photo by Tom Polito
RELATED: Is Griffith Park ready...
Forest Fees Put On Hold
May 10, 2012
A federal appeals court decision in an Arizona case sharply restricts and may end the Adventure Pass program that imposes recreation fees for visitors to Angeles National Forest and other federal lands. The U.S. Forest Service, though, made no...
President Obama Agrees With Club's Mission Outdoors Vision
May 10, 2012
“Connecting people to our lands is personally important to me,” said President Obama at the White House Conference on Conservation held in early March. The conference, convened by the President and his cabinet, was titled Growing America...
'Dear Becky ... You Know Everything About Nature!'
May 10, 2012
College Student Rebecca Niemlec spent her summer designing curicula and
taking students outdoors with the Chapter's Inner-City Outings Committee
photo by Joe Young
The sun was setting over the horizon, casting a pink hue over the vast...
It's Time To Create More National Monuments
May 10, 2012
Let's protect land adjacent to Canyonlands Park in Utah (left), Mesa Arch, Canyonlands(right) and habitat
in the Arctic Refuge, which is home to arctic wolves
photos © Steve Bein...
Letters
May 10, 2012
The road to clean energyIn the March/April issue (“Clean energy: Why natural gas doesn’t make the cut”), Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune tends to paint a rather gloomy portrait of the natural gas industry.I have to...