Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice

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.

About Our Program

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.

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Over 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.
16 de septiembre de 2022

La administración Biden anunció un significativo paso adelante en sus esfuerzos por reducir las emisiones industriales de carbono y contaminación. 

15 de septiembre de 2022

El Sierra club se unió a más de 150 grupos progresistas en el lanzamiento de la Campaña Soluciones para la Contaminación (#SolutionsForPollution). 

September 13, 2022

Today, several environmental and community organizations formally petitioned EPA to eliminate nearly 100 exemptions in the Clean Air Act that allow industrial polluters around the country to dump deadly air pollution with impunity into nearby…

November 21, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, several environmental and community organizations formally petitioned EPA to eliminate nearly 100 exemptions

August 29, 2022

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Healthy Gulf and Sierra Club filed a petition to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to require a Coastal Use Permit for the fracked gas export terminal Plaquemines LNG that is under…