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The Los Angeles Political Committee is honored to announce our 17th Annual Political Leadership Awards hosted by the Angeles Chapter on August 10, 2024 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Downtown LA Sierra Club Regional Office. The event will be held in the...

Statue of oil workers in Signal Hill. The era of oil in our communities is coming to an end. Photo Credit: Bo Hakala It is with so much excitement and gratitude that I get to share historic news: Big...

Ignorance is just one step away from awareness. Once we have awareness, we can change. The more awareness we can spread, the greater the changes can be made.   As new products are introduced, we, as consumers, go with the trend. Who doesn...

We have much to celebrate from June’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board Meeting, the local agency responsible for setting standards to clean up our air. There were three items that the Sierra Club has been...

In the past three months, the Activist Academy 2024 program has created a space for young leaders to find a home for their activism, After yet another successful session, the 2024 program has come to a close. However, their activist journeys have...

“By 2050, plastic production is predicted to account for 50% of oil and fracked gas demand growth,” stated the California Assembly Natural Resources Committee in its bill analysis of the now-dead AB 2648 procurement reduction of single-...

Last year, shortly after Thanksgiving, Dexter Eroen called the Sierra Club for the very first time. He had an idea to raise money for the Angeles Chapter as part of his goal to run 67.4 miles in one push across the Santa Monica Mountains...

Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist. She is best known for her pioneering work in environmental science and her influential book "Silent Spring," published in 1962. Her book sold more than two...

Unearthing the Past Celebrating Japanese American Artist and Sierran Chiura Obata. Photo by Cedric Wright Biography Born in Sendai, Japan in 1885, Chiura Obata was a renowned painter known for his evocative landscape paintings of the...