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.
September 13, 2021

Washington, D.C. - Today the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S House of Representatives began its mark-up of budget reconciliation language, which includes a Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), a fee on methane polluters, funding…

September 8, 2021

St. Louis, MO -- A broad coalition of organizations are uniting to oppose Ameren Missouri’s proposed $299 million rate increase for its customers, thousands of whom continue to struggle during the COVID-19 pandemic as the monopoly electric utility’s…

24 de agosto de 2021

La Cámara de Representantes aprobó hoy una resolución presupuestaria de $3,5 billones (trillions), un paso crucial para proveer audaces inversiones que necesitan las comunidades del país.

August 18, 2021

Environmental justice advocates and community members will attend the annual meeting of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) to express concern about the fossil fuel industry’s proposed expansion of fracked gas exports.

August 12, 2021

Affected community members testified last night at a public hearing on TPC Group’s proposed expansion of its polluting butadiene plant in the Houston Ship Channel.