Politics Blog Category

The Los Angeles Political Committee is honored to announce our 17th Annual Political Leadership Awards hosted by the Angeles Chapter on August 10, 2024 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Downtown LA Sierra Club Regional Office. The event will be held in the...

We have much to celebrate from June’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board Meeting, the local agency responsible for setting standards to clean up our air. There were three items that the Sierra Club has been...

“By 2050, plastic production is predicted to account for 50% of oil and fracked gas demand growth,” stated the California Assembly Natural Resources Committee in its bill analysis of the now-dead AB 2648 procurement reduction of single-...

President Obama established the 346,000-acre San Gabriel Mountains National Monument almost a decade ago. On March 3rd, President Biden expanded the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by another 106,000 acres, protecting two-thirds of the 700,...

Most of the spaces I have stepped into throughout my life have not centered voices of people from my community, the climate justice space being no exception. I felt a strong disconnect when I heard people who live outside of Black, Indigenous, and...

The 2024 election cycle looms large on the horizon, with the California Primary just eight months away. In this pivotal time, the Sierra Club is gearing up to support environmental champions and combat polluter-backed candidates across the state of...

On behalf of the Angeles Chapter, I accepted an invite to the Earth Day celebration at the residence of the Vice President.    It was no small thing to commit to travel across the country for a fancy social event. However, many of you...

Scientists predict that if the world does not drastically reduce carbon emissions and prevent global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C\ 2.7°F, we will experience irreversible and catastrophic consequences of climate change that could make...

Updated January 18, 2023 at 1:58pm On December 13, the Glendale City Council voted 4-1 to approve the $170 million purchase of new gas units at the Grayson Power Plant. Their decision moves Glendale in the opposite direction of the rest of...

Question: What do Mayor Garcetti, oil drilling, gas appliances, and styrofoam containers all have in common? Answer: Los Angeles is saying goodbye to all of them That was the gist of December’s Green New Deal signing ceremony and Mayor...