Sierra Club applauds China-U.S. pledge to reduce pollution
The U.S. and China released a groundbreaking announcement Tuesday to set ambitious goals for climate action and carbon pollution reductions.
Free 'Decarbonizing California' event features Sierra Club's Michael Brune
Sierra Club reaction to 2014 Mid-Year Election results
Sierra Club's Michael Brune tells members to hang tough amid GOP-dominated wins in the 2014 Mid-Year Elections. His comments:
“Last night’s election played out much as was predicted by analysts. Despite the climate movement’s significant investments and an unprecedented get out the vote program, strong voices for climate action were defeated and candidates paid for by corporate interests and bolstered by sinister voter suppression tactics won the day.
Chapter and other groups sue to stop filthy air in L.A.
Four health and environmental groups, including Sierra Club Angeles Chapter, filed a complaint Friday, Oct. 31, in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s faulty approval of Los Angeles’ South Coast Air Quality Management District's most recent regional smog plan. The plan allows for filthy air, deferred emissions reductions and continued pollution in the nation’s most smog-polluted region.
November Schedule of Activities is here!
Here's your copy of the November Schedule of Activities.
Sierra Club says vote no on Measure P
The nation’s largest and oldest grassroots community-based environmental organization, and one of the country’s earliest and consistent voices for parks, Sierra Club, announced its recommendation for voters related to an important ballot measures that the citizens of the County of Los Angeles will consider on November 4.
What's included in the new San Gabriel Mountains National Monument?
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| The dark lines within the green show the boundaries of the newly created San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Source: WhiteHouse.gov |
Growing native: One family's experience
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| The "after" picture of the Vandergriff-Smith's lawn using water-saving techniques. |
The Angeles-Alerts Listserv Problems on Oct. 23 Due to Operator Error
Problem emails were inadvertently sent out to subscribers of the Angeles-Alerts Listserv on Thursday, 10/23/2014 between 10:00 am and 11:07 am that may have contained virus software. If you found them in you email inbox don't open them. Many email systems used by subscribers trapped these emails as SPAM and automatically deleted them.
We took the list serve offline until we fixed the problem found in the Moderator settings that were updated on 10/22/2014, a day before the suspicious emails were delivered.
Wilderness 50 Conference
Wilderness activists, leading wilderness academicians, federal wilderness agency personnel, and energetic youth were in abundance at the Wilderness 50 Conference, held October 15-19, 2014, in Albuquerque, N.M. The session was a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of enactment of the Wilderness Act in 1964.
