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Planning to fail: Environmental review projects Regional Transportation Plan won’t achieve needed driving reductions
May 1, 2018
Our regional transportation plan (Plan Bay Area 2040) will guide the expenditure of $303 billion between now and 2040 to enact transportation and land-use strategies in the nine-county Bay Area. This plan (and this budget) offers an enormous...
Alameda County urban growth boundary under threat
April 23, 2018
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors is considering loosening the requirements of the County’s Urban Growth Boundary Initiative (Measure D), which was passed by the voters in 2000 to prevent sprawl. Weakening the protections contained in Measure...
Alameda County's Community Choice energy program to add a 100% renewable choice
April 19, 2018
We're thrilled to report that last night the board of directors of East Bay Community Energy, Alameda's new Community Choice power program, voted to offer a 100% renewable electricity choice starting in November 2018! Thanks to all of you who took...
Speak up for affordable Habitat for Humanity project in Walnut Creek
April 17, 2018
We invite you to come out and speak in support of a transit-accessible, affordable housing project! Habitat for Humanity has secured funding from the City of Walnut Creek to build 42 housing units for affordable to low- and moderate-income...
Richmond community wants to see permits for coal- and petcoke-export terminal
April 17, 2018
Coal exports through Richmond are higher than ever. We urgently need residents to show up at Richmond's City Council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, April 17th, to speak or support your neighbors as they speak. It's important for city officials to see...
Join us at Earth Day celebrations all around the Bay Area
April 11, 2018
The Sierra Club will be participating in Earth Day celebrations all throughout the Bay Area this April. Join us at beach cleanups, festivals, tree-plantings, and other gatherings to celebrate Mother Earth and efforts to protect the planet.
New golf course contract complicates Marin County plans for new park acquisition
April 11, 2018
Last month, Marin County succeeded in lining up a multi-million dollar grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board that would enable the county to buy the San Geronimo Golf Course for public open space and restore salmon habitat. But...
Metropolitan Water District vote advances environmentally damaging "twin tunnels" project
April 11, 2018
The large Southern California water wholesaler, the Metropolitan Water District, voted yesterday, 60.83 percent to 39.17 percent, to support and fund two environmentally damaging tunnels through the San Francisco Bay Delta.
Infusion of volunteers needed to collect signatures for Antioch's Protect Sand Creek Area initiative
April 10, 2018
The signature drive to qualify the Sand Creek Area Protection Initiative is halfway done on the calendar, but we’re running slightly behind the pace needed to guarantee qualification for the November election.
Don't let the SFPUC undermine our chance to revive the Delta
March 29, 2018
The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is in critical decline. The State’s Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revive the struggling Delta and the rivers that feed it, including the Tuolumne. Unfortunately...