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California court confirms San Diego governments violated law with sprawl-promoting transportation plan
November 20, 2017
A California appeals court last week confirmed most of a 2014 decision that the San Diego Assn. of Governments, or SANDAG, failed to reduce climate pollution and assess public health risks of a transportation plan that invests heavily in freeways...
Remembering R.J. Secor, Sierra Club mountaineer and author
November 10, 2017
R.J. Secor holds a copy of his 1992 climbing guidebook “High Sierra — Peaks, Passes & Trails”
CREDIT: Dan Richter
R.J. Secor, Sierra Club mountaineer and author...
Passages: Vieve Metcalfe, longtime Angeles Chapter member
October 30, 2017
Vieve Metcalfe, a resident of La Crescenta for the past 25 years and former Angeles Chapter treasurer, has died. She was 82 years old.Vieve's volunteer activities included many years as a National Ski Patrol member. She was very active in the...
Give a gift to our common home
October 27, 2017
Christmas started at Costco after Labor Day. By now, merrymakers have officially bought gifts and all kinds of other items to decorate their homes for the holidays. Now imagine there are no landfills and no recycling centers. What if you had to keep...
The benefits of playing in the dirt: An interview with leader Bill Vanderberg
October 27, 2017
Sierra Club Leader Bill Vanderberg and his student volunteers from the Club's Building Bridges to the Outdoors received the Youth Volunteer Group of the Year from Yosemite National Park in October. The awards are given to...
Trump administration's dark vision for national public lands
October 26, 2017
Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts may be slated for offshore drilling. Credit: Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia
There is a massive change in how the people who make decisions and manage your...
California Taking the Lead -- Political Leadership Awards
October 21, 2017
California Sierra Club PAC Fundraiser
November 4, 2017 3PM-6PM
Awardees
Hon. Cristina Garcia
Hon. Phil Anthony
Hon. Laura Friedman
Hon. Lorraine Prinsky
California
Taking
the Lead...
Donate to Sierra Club's fund fund for California fire victims
October 19, 2017
Sierra Club staff and volunteers can see and smell the smoke from our head office in Oakland, and up here in Lake County, I can see and taste the smoke from the fires burning near me and those further south in the wine country.
And what we're...
Poseidon Action Alert for State Lands Commission
October 10, 2017
State lands Commission
100 Howe Ave Suite 100 south
Sacramento CA. 95825
Via email to CSLC.CommissionMeetings@slc.ca.gov
Re: Opposition to Poseidon Huntington Beach Desalination Project
Dear Commissioners:
I am writing...
Stop the Poseidon Desalination Plant in Huntington Beach
October 10, 2017
Attend the Huntington Beach Desalination Plant Hearing at the State Lands Commission
On October 19 , 2017 the State Lands Commission (SLC) will consider approving an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Poseidon’s destructive Huntington...