First State-of-the-State Delivers Half a Loaf for the Environment

  • Posted on 12 February 2019
  • By lfleming

SACRAMENTO –Governor Gavin Newsom delivered some good news and bad news for California's environment during his state-of-the-state address on Tuesday.

The governor announced that he does not support the California Water Fix proposal for two giant, 35-mile tunnels to divert water from the San Francisco Bay Delta. However, he declared his support for a single tunnel—an alternative proposal that has not gone through any economic and environmental analysis.

Passages: Robert (Bob) Lewis, Angeles Chapter Sierra Singles Founder

  • Posted on 12 February 2019
  • By Dorothy (Dottie) Juarez, Photo: Laurie Bailey Photography, 2015

Robert (Bob) Lewis, a long-time dedicated Sierra Club member, died of Pulmonary Fibrosis on Thursday December 13th, 2018 at Your Place care facility in Thousand Oaks, CA. He was born in Millburn, New Jersey, October 15th 1931, and his surving family lives in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. His cremains will be placed in the family plot at Abington Hills Cemetery, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.

Passages: Jo Ann Dodson, Long Time Sierra Club Activist in Antelope Valley

  • Posted on 8 February 2019
  • By Chapter Sfaff

Jo Ann Hickerson Dodson passed away peacefully from complications due to Alzheimer’s. She was 75.

She volunteered with the Sierra Club and the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve.

She is survived by her husband, James Dodson; her daughters Tina Petersen, Eleanor Dodson, and Laura Spidell; her grandchildren Zachary Spidell, Turner Spidell, Jessica Stuebing, Lauren Petersen, and Katie Petersen; and her brother Lloyd Hickerson and his family.

Letter from Sacramento: A Chance to Take a Better Path

  • Posted on 31 January 2019
  • By Kathryn Phillips, Director, Sierra Club California

 

One of my colleagues sent me a photo from a local happy hour venue a couple of weeks ago.

It was a disturbing photo.

The venue is fairly new and within walking distance of my office. It attracts a young and impressionable crowd, including a lot of workers from the Capitol Building.

The Legacy of One of California´s Most Infamous Landfills

  • Posted on 30 January 2019
  • By Brian Jobst

The massive BKK Corporation Landfill in West Covina closed 23 years ago; it’s history pockmarked with chemical spills on streets leading to the dump, methane and vinyl chloride leaks, evacuations of residents, and prolonged litigation.  There’s no getting rid of the landfill.  It’s contents – 20 million tons of decomposing trash and 3.4 million tons of toxic hazardous waste – will remain there for decades to come. 

The San Gabriel Mountains need your help! Rapid Response Clean Up to Government's Shutdown Jan. 26th

  • Posted on 23 January 2019
  • By agonzalez

In response to the current government shutdown and the negative impact it is having on our San Gabriel Mountains and San Gabriel River, we are organizing a rapid response river cleanup at the Heaton Flats area of the San Gabriel River. Come show your support for the San Gabriel Mountains and for the Forest Service employees and volunteers who are not currently allowed to care for the San Gabriels while the government is closed.

Tell the AQMD Board: Ban Use Of MHF in Local Refineries!

  • Posted on 17 January 2019
  • By lfleming

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has the opportunity to adopt Rule 1410 and completely phase out dangerous MHF from our local refineries. They need to hear from the public, to support this resolution for a complete ban, but it is facing strong opposition from the Torrance Refinery and Valero (Wilmington) Refinery.

Sierra Club Opposes Expansion of the Quemetco Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Plant

  • Posted on 2 January 2019
  • By Joan Licari, San Gabriel Valley Task Force

The San Gabriel Valley Task Force of Angeles Chapter, the Clean Air Coalition of North Whittier and Avocado Heights (CAC) with the Hacienda Heights Improvement Association (HHIA) have formed a coalition with residents to oppose expansion of the Quemetco lead/acid battery recycling plant in the City of Industry.  Residents are concerned about health impacts of past and present emissions of lead and arsenic from the facility.

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