Sierra Club staff and volunteers can see and smell the smoke from our head office in Oakland, and up here in Lake County, I can see and taste the smoke from the fires burning near me and those further south in the wine country.

And what we're seeing and smelling from the multiple wildfires blazing simultaneously around the place I've called home for 36 years is horrific beyond measure: 42 people dead and hundreds missing. More than 5,700 homes and structures destroyed. Schools closed, desperate families camping on beaches. The worst air quality on record.

Are you tired of being stuck in traffic in the San Fernando Valley? Here's a way to be part of the solution. The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority has spent several years studying the possibility of creating a 9.2-mile line that would travel from Sylmar at the San Fernando Road Metrolink station at its northern end and then head south on Van Nuys Boulevard to the Orange Line station.  

Click here to find out how you can take action to stop the Poseidon desalination plant in Huntington Beach.

The California State Lands Commission on Oct. 19 will consider approving an Environmental Impact Report, or EIR, for a destructive Huntington Beach desalination plant by the Poseidon Water. Sierra Club needs you to join us in telling the agency not to certify the plant's EIR and give a greenlight to this damaging project.

The 2017 October Schedule of Activities has arrived. 

Everyone’s favorite zombie water project is baaaack… but there’s a move afoot to lay it to rest for good with a new state law, AB 1000.

The Cadiz water project would pump 50,000 annual acre-feet of water from an ancient aquifer beneath Mojave Trails National Monument and sell it to Southern California suburbs. The Sierra Club has been fighting this plan since the 1990s when Cadiz Inc. introduced the idea of pumping water out of the desert and selling it to local water agencies.

A wilderness experience awaits right next door. You can hike, ski, picnic, camp, ride horses, play in the water, or just sit and enjoy nature within an hour’s drive of downtown Los Angeles.

The creation of America’s national marine sanctuary program in 1975 was the highlight of a decades-long effort to gain protections for unique ocean and Great Lakes ecosystems in federal waters surrounding the U.S.