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[rincon event] RSVP "Sierra Forum" on Sept. 23 "Victories of Environmental Law Program" ... [more]
September 23, 2020
Despite a challenging landscape on multiple fronts, Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program (ELP) won a string of victories this summer, including blocking the illegal construction of Trump’s border wall. -- Our attorneys and partners had three big...
[borderlands] News from the Border - Sept 2020 .. [more]
September 23, 2020
Join the Webinar - A Wall in the Wild: Erasing the Borderlands ~ ~ Residents Gather to Protest Border Wall along San Pedro River ~ ~ Deer Found trapped by Border Wall near Oregon Pipe.... [CLICK TITLE ABOVE -- FOR MORE]
[laws] Politico: "Ginsburg left a long environmental legacy".. [more]
September 19, 2020
from Politico = "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [...] helped establish critical Supreme Court precedent that empowered EPA to address the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. -- The landmark ruling she joined in 2007 that affirmed EPA’s...
[welcome] Chapter Awards = "Nominate Volunteers for Awards! " [more]
September 15, 2020
Chapter Awards = "Nominate Volunteers for Awards! " -- Our Chapter "Volunteer Recognition" Virtual Picnic is Sunday November 15th from Noon to 1:30pm (and will be held via Zoom) -- Please submit the names of some of those wonderful Sierra Club...
[muir] The Sierra Club's "History/Future Task Force"... [more]
September 15, 2020
excerpt = "The short-term task force will review and approve supporting materials and communications around the effort to reexamine Sierra Club’s past to acknowledge racism and problematic aspects throughout our long history and understand how that...
[livestock on public lands] "Arizona Legislature Diverted Prop. 303 Money To Ranchers" by Jeffrey D. Burgess [more]
September 15, 2020
superb "background info" article, excerpted -- from Jeffrey D. Burgess: "Arizona voters passed Proposition 303 in 1998 to fund the Growing Smarter Act with the belief that it would provide $20 million a year for communities and nonprofits to buy...
[rincon event] Video of Sandy Bahr's talk on "The 2020 Legislature - Lasting Harm from a Short Session" ... [more]
September 10, 2020
VIDEO = Join the Rincon Group and Grand Canyon Chapter director Sandy Bahr to learn more about the 2020 legislative session and the bills the governor signed to preempt local climate action and promote secrecy for important endangered species data...
[insider] Sept 9) One Million Letters, Death Valley Heat, Big Oil Bailout, and More ...[more]
September 10, 2020
11 Articles = Sign, Sealed, Delivered ~~Do Your Job, Senators ~~ “A Million Blow-Dryers” ~~ Failing Harvests Driving Central American Families North ~~ Trump Pilfering Pandemic Funds to Bail Out Big Oil ~~ Smokestacks or Backpacks? ~~ Mutually...
[climate] "Climate Emergency Declaration, Tucson"...[more]
September 9, 2020
(per email from Catalina Ross, Sierra Club) -- Hello Tucsonans! We have some big news!! The City of Tucson will be considering and holding a vote on an initiative to declare a climate emergency put forward by Mayor Regina Romero and Councilmember...
[climate] City of Tucson "Climate Emergency Declaration"...[more]
September 9, 2020
On September 9th -- Mayor Regina Romero and Council Member Paul Durham have proposed a "Tucson Climate Emergency Declaration" to be discussed and voted upon at this meeting -- Climate justice is an intersectional issue, directly affecting BIPOC,...