Our Mission: To discuss and explore the linkages between environmental quality and social justice, and to promote dialogue, increased understanding, and appropriate action.
Former Sierra Club president Aaron Mair speaks at a historic Mississippi March for Justice.
At the Sierra Club, we are diligently working to explore the integration of social justice and environmental concerns. Our program seeks to provide an effective framework for addressing the damage, risk, and discrimination facing so many communities today.
Read moreOver a decade after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the Gulf Coast still fights for the most basic of rights: to return home, breathe clean air, and drink clean water.
Washington, DC-- Over the holidays, it was revealed that the Trump administration’s Department of the Interior (DOI) will remove “sexual orientation” from the agency’s anti-discrimination guidelines. The change could have an effect on both…
Los Angeles, CA -- Today, the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning released an initial draft update to the safety standards governing the Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a recent interview with Eva McKend of Spectrum News, Donald Trump’s EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler was pressed about his reaction to Trump’s racist attacks on four women of color in Congress -- Representatives Ilhan Omar,…
Washington, D.C. — To confront the widening dangers of our climate crisis, leading U.S. environmental justice and national environmental groups today are advancing for the first time an Equitable and Just National Climate Platform.
Environmental justice advocates and residents of Robeson County traveled to Charlotte to urge DEQ and the NCDEQ Environmental Justice Advisory & Equity Board to scrutinize Duke Energy’s plans for a dirty, dangerous liquified natural gas (LNG)…