LOS ANGELES -- This Saturday, Sept. 28, the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter and Team Sierra will host outdoors advocates from across the city for the first-annual City Hike: LA fundraising event. The trek will guide participants throughout the city in order to raise money for clean energy, clean transportation, and the safeguard of California’s lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following recent evidence of Trump’s ongoing corruption, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will reportedly announce a formal impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday evening, McClatchy reported that EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nicols threatening sanctions against California, including cuts in federal highway funding.
Today the House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife will hold a hearing a suite of bills to strengthen protections for endangered species. Included is the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need (PAW and FIN) of Conservation Act, which reverses recent Trump administration rollbacks to the highly successful Endangered Species Act. The hearing comes at the same time the Western Caucus is holding a roundtable to unveil a number of bills that would further undermine endangered species protections.
Los Angeles, CA -- Today, the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning released an initial draft update to the safety standards governing the Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the country.
Air pollution reduction systems at Duke Energy’s Allen Steam Station near Belmont are not working efficiently, and the rate at which nitrogen oxides are emitted by the plant has increased in recent years, according to a report commissioned by the Sierra Club.
Today a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that halts, for now, the initial phase of the largest timber sale approved by the U.S. Forest Service in 30 years.
ARLINGTON, VA -- On Saturday, the Arlington County Board unanimously voted to adopt a new Community Energy Plan (CEP) after a two-year review and update.
As a result of a legal challenge to a massive proposed petrochemical facility in Belmont County, the company behind the project will implement several critical air pollution concerns that state regulators failed to address.
On Saturday, September 28, hundreds of people will gather on the shores of Gichi-gami—Lake Superior— in Duluth for a rally and march to express their ongoing opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline.