We are working to address the widespread pollution of air, water, and the food supply. We recognize that the burden posed by toxic chemicals falls most heavily on marginalized people, including Black and Brown communities, low income families, and children. We are focused on actions that bring attention to people and places most impacted by pollution.
Despite legal protections that exist to regulate pesticides, the safeguards are woefully inadequate.
Polluters, not everyday people, must be responsible for halting the use of these chemicals, and paying to clean up the pollution and contamination they’ve created. Sierra Club is focused on actions that reduce environmental inequities. We call for long-lasting solutions, including stronger government oversight, pollution prevention, and increased corporate accountability.
Read MoreToday, 51 non-governmental organizations from around the globe sent letters to Amazon and eBay, calling on them to stop marketing dangerous and illegal mercury-based skin lightening creams. The groups testing identified 19 skin products sold by…
(Kalama, WA) November 13, 2018—Today, a report written by the company proposing the world’s largest fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery was released by the Port of Kalama and Cowlitz County, WA. The proposed fossil fuel refinery is controversial…
Oscoda, MI-- This morning, the Detroit Free Press reported that Attorney General Bill Schuette is “dragging his feet” on yet another case of PFAS contamination in Michigan. Schuette’s office sat on complaints for over nine months concerning the U.S…
Washington, DC-- Today, a coalition of groups representing workers, scientists and community members near chemical facilities won a case challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) delay of the Chemical Disaster Rule in the D.C. Circuit…
Colorado Springs, CO-- Community members and several representatives from the from across the region testified at and rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Listening and Working Sessions,” meant to address the state’s severe (…
