Toiyabe News and Issues Blog

We are now located across from the Springs Preserve in the heart of Congressional District 1, and are excited to start a new phase of our work in Las Vegas from a space that will allow us to host more events as we work to fight for Nevada’s...

The Trump administration's proposed budget targets 15 long-distance Amtrak routes for funding cuts, include the California Zephyr, which connects the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago, through Nevada, every day. You can support the funding for...

Big banks like Wells Fargo fund the companies behind dangerous pipelines -- like Keystone XL and Dakota Access -- that threaten Indigenous rights, our climate, and communities. If your money is invested with big banks like Wells Fargo, it is helping...

Take a few minutes today to support Reno's Better Building Challenge. The Reno City Council will vote Wednesday, August 23, whether to launch the voluntary Better Buildings Challenge, which will reduce 20% of a commercial buildings' energy use...

Wouldn't it be great if we could enjoy the beauty of silence at Tahoe just one day each week? The Tahoe Group of the Sierra Club is proposing the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency adopt this policy, which would allow people to enjoy non-motorized water...

In partnership with Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign hosted an Environmental Justice town hall at the Iglesia CAF in Las Vegas on July 19. Members of the community learned about various efforts...

President Trump wants to kick-start the approval of Yucca Mountain as a high-level nuclear waste depository. Nevada says: “We’re not going to go away and we’re not going to give up.” Here's a summary of the status of Yucca Mountain, and what you...

News releases are declaring that Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has recommended to President Trump that 6 National Monuments be reduced - at least 2 significantly, Bears Ears in Utah and Gold Butte in Nevada. Despite public comments...

By Anne Macquarie, Toiyabe Chapter Legislative Chair.Now that the dust has settled on Nevada's 2017 Legislature, here's a wrap up of Nevada's newest conservation legislation, and the bills that didn't make it.Bad news first. Governor...

Neither sun nor dust nor heat nor long drives on gravel roads stay Sierra Club volunteers from giving back to the lands they love.In June, a dozen volunteers from the Sierra Club and Lahontan Audubon Society traveled to far northwestern Nevada to...