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Let's protect land adjacent to Canyonlands Park in Utah (left), Mesa Arch, Canyonlands(right) and habitat in the Arctic Refuge, which is home to arctic wolves photos © Steve Bein...

The road to clean energyIn the March/April issue (“Clean energy: Why natural gas doesn’t make the cut”), Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune tends to paint a rather gloomy portrait of the natural gas industry.I have to...

It’s been about 12 years since a couple of us started working to bring clean, non-polluting trucks to the Port of Los Angeles. On a Wednesday night in April in a small trailer in a truck yard in Wilmington, a coalition that includes the...

One-third of all the stuff we throw away in L.A. and Orange counties could help improve the health of our communities, prevent climate change, nourish local soils and create good green jobs. Meet organic discards, the single biggest class of...

  The Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter joined five public-interest groups in April that are suing Los Angeles County over its approval of permits for the first phase of the sprawling Newhall Ranch development. The proposed plan, one of...

. Compromised safety closed two nuclear reactor units; the threat of blackouts shouldn’t reopen them. The nuclear reactors at San Onofre nuclear power plant south of San Clemente are nearly 30 years old. In January, one of the steel tubes in...

As a backpacker, I pride myself on being Tough. I sleep on the ground, wear the same filthy clothes for a week, eat jerky and string cheese meal after meal, and have survived for seven days with just the thirtyfive pounds on my back. But last...

The Chapter’s South Bay Open Space Task Force wants to see three steps taken to protect homes adjacent to the Palos Verdes Landfill. So far, regulatory agencies have been unresponsive to the task force’s concerns, and the task force...

One key tool every good activist Landfill’s toxic past concerns residents needs to use: the law. If you don’t know how to use it, here’s an opportunity to learn from the pros.“Coastal Protection, Land Trusts &...