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This Earth Day we are supporting our partners WA Youth Climate Strike who are organizing Earth Day Live, a three-day live stream from April 22 to 24 focused on demanding action on climate change, jobs, and justice. The live stream will include...

This edition features important updates on the 2020 Legislative Session and some opportunities to take action against COVID19!   As we deal with a global pandemic with COVID-19, we...

The 2020 legislative session saw important climate advocacy for Washington State. The brief 60-day session resulted in the passage of some important bills, but also some significant disappointments. We pushed for bills in Olympia that would help...

Thanks to your dedicated support across WA, protections for our state’s fish habitat and water quality took a big leap forward with the passage of suction dredge reform legislation (HB 1261). This was one of the priority bills for the Sierra Club...

The long-awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on recovering Snake and Columbia River salmon was released on February 28th. Sadly, the DEIS merely perpetuates the status quo and will fail to recover our endangered salmon, steelhead,...

On February 4th, the Federal Court of Appeals in Canada dismissed Indigenous legal challenges to the Trans Mountain project: a disappointing decision that vitally affects the First Nations on the pipeline and tankers route, and cuts deep for many of...

The annual election for Sierra Club’s Board of Directors is now underway. Those eligible to vote in the national Sierra Club election will receive ballots in early March by mail (or digitally if you chose the electronic delivery option). This will...

In late January, we received word that the Southern Resident orca, Mega (L-41), was presumed dead. Mega’s disappearance brings the population down to only 72 orca, the second-lowest since the Center for Whale Research first began its census 45 years...

Every 30 seconds, the US loses a patch of nature the size of a football field. This is the kind of factoid we’ve heard repeated so frequently that we are almost desensitized to the meaning. Now, in an era of climate change, people are thinking about...

The winter of 2012 was an intense one. I was a busy extrovert struggling to adjust to new motherhood, exhausted by sleepless nights, bored by endless days at home, and feeling crushed by the unremitting grey of the weather. I longed to get out, to...