A Big Step Closer to Safer LA Streets

  • Posted on 8 July 2022
  • By Morgan Goodwin - Senior Director Angeles Chapter
The Healthy Streets ballot initiative in the city of LA has submitted its signatures in June, and they are feeling optimistic about getting on the ballot this fall! 
 
Now that the City Clerk has received the signatures, they will begin their validation process ensuring that everyone who signed the ballot measure is a legitimate City of LA voter. Once certified, the initiative will go to the city council who will decide whether to adopt the initiative outright or let the voters decide as soon as this year (2022).
 

The Supreme Court Won't Stop Us From Achieving 100% Clean Energy

  • Posted on 8 July 2022
  • By Morgan Goodwin - Senior Director Angeles Chapter
June’s SCOTUS decision in the crucial climate case West Virginia v. EPA is a deeply disappointing and dangerous decision that eliminates EPA’s most effective tool for reducing harmful climate pollution from existing power plants. This decision gives coal executives and far-right politicians exactly what they asked for by frustrating EPA’s efforts to set strong, effective carbon pollution standards from power plants that would help protect our communities and families. 
 

We're Hiring a Fundraising Officer

  • Posted on 27 June 2022
  • By Morgan Goodwin, Chapter Director
Our team is growing and we are adding a new position to support and expand our fundraising activities! 
 

City Council Demonstrates its Commitment to a Zero-Carbon Los Angeles by Passing Building Electrification Policy

  • Posted on 6 June 2022
  • By Kimberly Orbe - Conservation Program Manager
On Friday, May 27th, The Los Angeles City Council voted to ban most gas appliances/hookups in new construction, a huge win for clean air, and the climate. Los Angeles joins 54 cities phasing out most gas in California. This policy will require all new residential and commercial buildings in Los Angeles to be built to achieve zero-carbon emissions.
 

Join Sierra Club Leadership!

  • Posted on 6 June 2022
  • By Angeles Chapter Updates
The Angeles Chapter Nominating Committee is recruiting Executive Committee leaders for the chapter and our regional groups. 
 

Can Hilda Solis save the Puente Hills Park?

  • Posted on 23 May 2022
  • By Morgan Goodwin, Chapter Director
The Puente Hills landfill operated from 1956 to 2013. As early as 1990s, then State Assembly member Hilda Solis authored legislation to covert the landfill to a public park. 
 
That dream just crossed a major milestone to becoming reality, with the settlement of an $80 million lawsuit. However, the Sierra Club does not support current plans for the park. " the Disneyland that they are imagining for this park is not a good fit" says Sierra Club's Puente Hills Taskforce lead Eric Johnson. 
 

Your Role in Securing Coastal Access

  • Posted on 2 May 2022
  • By Valerie Izquierdo
The California Coastal Commission has assured that the California Coastal Act is upheld in all aspects of its mission. The Act oversees the developments made on the land along the coast of California and how it’s protected from development as well. One aspect of the Act that requires the help of coastal activists is the enforcement of public coastal access.
 

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