Politics Blog Category

This past Sunday, Sierra Club members and activists, alongside Angeles County community members, gathered in Costa Mesa to celebrate and honor elected politicians for their fearless leadership in climate.

  The Sierra Club is honored to present the 2025 Political Leadership Award to California Supervisor Paloma Aguirre, in recognition of her exceptional leadership and steadfast commitment to protecting the environment. Supervisor...

  The Sierra Club is honored to present the 2025 Political Leadership Award to Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman for her strong record on the environment, especially regarding environmental justice and climate change. ...

  Rick Cole is being presented with a Political Leadership Award for his lifelong involvement in government and public service.  This year he returned to the Pasadena City Council, a position he first held 40 years ago.  ...

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...

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...

“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-...

President Obama established the 346,000-acre San Gabriel Mountains National Monument almost a decade ago. On March 3rd, President Biden expanded the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by another 106,000 acres, protecting two-thirds of the 700,...

Most of the spaces I have stepped into throughout my life have not centered voices of people from my community, the climate justice space being no exception. I felt a strong disconnect when I heard people who live outside of Black, Indigenous, and...

The 2024 election cycle looms large on the horizon, with the California Primary just eight months away. In this pivotal time, the Sierra Club is gearing up to support environmental champions and combat polluter-backed candidates across the state of...