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The decision is especially good news for the many Gulf Coast residents who, in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, were provided emergency shelter by FEMA in mobile homes and travel trailers that ended up causing serious health problems...

We need Sierra Club members to SPEAK UP this legislative session! We have the chance to save our Scenic Rivers program, stop open munitions burning and the poisoning of residents in Colfax, Louisiana, and stop the destructive "One Lake project"...

The Delta Chapter Spring Retreat will take place Friday to Sunday, April 20-22, 2018, at Grand Isle, Louisiana; even better news - we booked the weekend of the annual Grand Isle Migratory Bird Celebration! There will be special programs throughout...

The Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program (BTNEP) is still accepting volunteers for its 7th Annual 2018 Bayou Lafourche Cleanup on March 10, 2018. The cleanup event will be held from 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. and is projected to clean up 106 miles...

After hearing about how drastic budget cuts are causing many state parks to close or limit services, with more future closures possible, the Sierra Club Delta Chapter took action, mobilizing members of its northshore Honey Island Group this past...

Several Louisiana-based environmental and conservation groups sued the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Administrator Scott Pruitt last week, asking a federal court to reverse recent EPA actions to weaken water pollution standards for...

Federal District Court Judge Shelly Dick halted the construction of the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline across the Atchafalaya Basin. Today’s decision grants a preliminary injunction to prevent ongoing irreparable harm to this ecological...

On February 21, 2018, the New Orleans City Councilmembers who make up the Utility Committee are expected to vote on whether New Orleans residents and businesses should foot the bill for an expensive, unnecessary and harmful gas power plant that...

Sierra Club Delta Chapter's lawsuit seeking to halt construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline found a wider audience this week when it was featured in the Sierra magazine, the national magazine of the Sierra Club.

A standing-room only crowd showed up for the Acadiana Group of the Sierra Club Delta Chapter's public forum to address flooding concerns in the Acadiana region on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at the Lafayette Southern Regional Public Library. The...