Throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties groups of Sierra Club members work together on many conservation projects and environmental concerns and give voice to efforts to protect open spaces and wild habitats.

 

Clean Air, Water & Energy

We will continue to organize and mobilize to restore the right to clean air and clean water and build sustainable communities powered by clean, renewable energy.

Coastal Preservation

Our coastal campaigns and committees work with state and local agencies to protect and preserve our coastal habitats and communities from the threats of pollution, development, and a changing climate.  

Open Space & Habitat Preservation

We play a pivotal role in developing the sustainable and just solutions necessary to protect our home’s natural beauty, wild creatures, and scenic landscape from the climate and extinction crisis

Regional Conservation Committees


Find Your Regional Group

Conservation Chairs for each Regional Group can help members learn about Sierra Club resources for taking lead on issues and identify current campaigns and actions being taken by fellow members on topics of interest.

More about these Committees and Task Forces >

 

Contact: Conservation Program Manager Kim Orbe at kim.orbe@sierraclub.org

 

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Conservation News

We Tap

Tapping In To Clean Drinking Water Everywhere

Bringing awareness to public fountains, the safety of tap water and the issues with single use plastic bottles is a key to a healthy and environmentally sound future. The City of Los Angeles is proud to host the 2028 Olympics. WeTap’s project, 2028 for 2028, identifies 2000+ cites using scientific analysis and mapping, as well as common sense to improve access to public drinking fountains in Los Angeles, focusing on outdoor public locations with high value to communities.

San Diego Sewage coast

San Diego Has A Cross Border Sewage Problem

For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana, Mexico has, and continues, to flow across the border into San Diego, California.  This discharge flows into the Tijuana River Valley, and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean.  This pollution has negatively impacted the Tijuana River Valley and the Tijuana River Estuary, one of the last remaining estuaries in California, and the beaches.  Unhealthy concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria has forced the County of San Diego to close 10 miles of beach access from the US-Mexico Border all the way to the beaches of Coronado.

 
Sierra Club Leader Sandra Cattell Providing Insightful Commentary During the Hearing

One Hundred Plus Gather for Listening Session in Ongoing Campaign to Expand San Gabriel National Monument

On Tuesday, November 7, 2023, USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources Dr. Homer Wilkes held a listening session for a long time effort to expand the San Gabriel National Monument. Sierra Club National and local LA Chapter alongside partners from the Nature for All Coalition and supporters of the San Gabriel Mountains Forever Campaign, composed of dozens of conservation groups, helped mobilize more than 150 community members and provided over 100 in person comments in support as well as thousands of petition signatures calling on the Biden Administration to expand the National Monument through the antiquities act.