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The news of the Sierra Club across LA and Orange Counties!

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We Launched a Canvass Program with 4 New Staff

October 16, 2019
Sierra Club Dirty Fuels campaign in Los Angeles in deep partnership with the Angeles Chapter's Clean Break Committee has hired on 4 temporary canvassing staff to do outreach in the Great Baldwin Hills region. Right now, LA County is updating...

City Hike: LA Works to Raise Funds and Reduce Waste

October 4, 2019
Photo Credit: Diana Vitoshka On Saturday, September 28th Team Sierra hosted the first-ever Team Sierra City Hike: LA. 115 participants from the Greater Los Angeles and Orange County area gathered to hike a collective 500+ miles through...

Remembering Robert (Robin) and Lori Ives

September 30, 2019
Robin and Lori Ives. Circa 1961   Sierra Club Angeles Chapter’s inspirational leader, long-time member and conservationist, Robert (Robin) Ives, passed away earlier this year on January 11, 2019.    Ives and...

A Bright Spot in Congress for California’s Public Lands

September 30, 2019
Photo by Bob Wick Superbloom at Carrizo Plain As we face Trump-era environmental rollbacks and the growing climate crisis, a suite of new bills focused on protecting and restoring natural areas, safeguarding wild places, and creating new...

Latest Updates on Wildlife 

September 30, 2019
 We re pleased to share some of our wins for wildlife in the past few weeks. We have been walking the halls of the state capitol of California and Nevada, speaking at public hearings, holding public rallies and giving tours of...

Help Save Glendora’s Foothills!

September 30, 2019
The City of Glendora calls itself the “Pride of the Foothills”. But there is a threat to the foothills that frame of the northern edge of our community—a proposal to allow nineteen large homes of 5,000 square feet or more on a...