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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...
A Clean Trucks Victory
May 10, 2012
It’s been about 12 years since a couple of us started working to bring clean, non-polluting trucks to the Port of Los Angeles. On a Wednesday night in April in a small trailer in a truck yard in Wilmington, a coalition that includes the...
Why are we tossing organic waste into landfills?
May 9, 2012
One-third of all the stuff we throw away in L.A. and Orange counties could help improve the health of our communities, prevent climate change, nourish local soils and create good green jobs.
Meet organic discards, the single biggest class of...
Sierra Club sues to save Santa Clara River
May 9, 2012
The Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter joined five public-interest groups in April that are suing Los Angeles County over its approval of permits for the first phase of the sprawling Newhall Ranch development.
The proposed plan, one of...
Time to retire San Onofre nuclear plant for good?
May 3, 2012
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Compromised safety closed two nuclear reactor units; the threat of blackouts shouldn’t reopen them.
The nuclear reactors at San Onofre nuclear power plant south of San Clemente are nearly 30 years old. In January, one of the steel tubes in...