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Evergreen February 2020 | A Whale Orca-strated Recovery Plan

This edition features important updates on our building electrification work and a chance to get involved at the 2020 Environmental Lobby Day!...

Mayor Durkan committed all new city buildings and retrofits of city buildings to using fossil-free energy. We know fracked gas is a huge remaining hurdle in our climate challenge, so this move was a needed first step that Sierra Club is excited to...

The mainstream environmental movement has an uncomfortable history regarding race and equity. While Sierra Club and other organizations are actively working to improve in this arena, some problematic narratives still exist. One of these is the claim...

The Port Angeles Harbor was once lined with plywood, pulp and paper mills for many decades. These left a legacy of contaminants in the Harbor sediments and town soils. Toxic air emissions reached back to the Olympic National Park harming trees and...

If your new year resolution was to get more involved in protecting our orca and salmon, you’re in luck. As we ring in the new year, we also welcome two new opportunities to effectively protect our endangered salmon, and the Resident Southern orca...

At our last meeting, the Sierra Club National Board approved by far the largest political program that we have ever attempted, focused on leveraging the power of our four million members and supporters to ensure everyone who cares about our issues...

Every day we wait for holistic climate action across all fronts is a sacrifice we tack on to our health, our loved ones, and our planet. That’s why we want to let you in on our climate-driven housing and transportation priorities at the legislature...

Governor Inslee’s office is sponsoring a first-of-its-kind conversation in Washington State about the future of the lower Snake River. The discussion will cover the four federal dams, the importance of our endangered salmon and steelhead populations...

On November 22nd, 2019 the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) ruled that the environmental review for the Kalama Methanol Refinery used outdated information and baseless assumptions. Now that the project is in Ecology’s hands, this is a...