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Rooftop solar power systems are on the rise in California -- and Sierra Club has a partnership to help homeowners get on board. The Club joins with solar company Sungevity to make an offer that benefits homeowners and the Club. Every person who...

The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter strongly opposes a plan to allow oil drilling in the Whittier Hills on land that was purchased by the city and supposed to be preserved as open-space parkland.Club policy strictly forbids drilling and oil development...

Angeles Chapter leaders and environmental activists met with officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in September to share concerns about decommissioning San Onofre nuclear power plant, particularly over the issue of storing spent...

Former two-term Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has received the Sierra' Club's Edgar Wayburn Award, which honors outstanding service to the environment by a person in government. Under Villaraigosa’s leadership, Los Angeles...

Photographer Charlie Lieberman spent the last two years touring the American West to capture images that would best define the extraordinary landscape. Now an exhibit of his work called "... as it is today" debuts at an opening reception...

The relationship between trade and population is based on one main factor: growth. Growth of people, growth of goods and services, and growth of markets and capital. The latest population projection from the United Nations is for a world...

The Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, part of the last 5% of California's remaining wetlands, was saved from development, but now Sierra Club activists and environmentalists are troubled by the discovery of a drainage system that may have...

Showing consistency with other land use decisions in Trabuco Canyon, Orange County Superior Court Judge Steven L. Perk in August ruled in favor of a coalition of community and public interest groups, upholding important planning documents and...

Fitness, research, stress release, friendship, solitude, training, beauty.  There are countless reasons to get outdoors. With more than 133,000 collective acres of wildlands in Orange County—the parks, scenery and experiences are...

Editor's note: What's it like to go solar? Lisa Ferguson of San Pedro details her experience with the Sierra Club's Sungevity program -- and how much she likes making her own power. And she has some advice: Try it. Anyone,...