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We're At the Finish Line: Tell Congress to Pass the EXPLORE ACT to Improve Outdoor Access!

This week, Congress is deliberating on the outdoor recreation package, Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences (EXPLORE) Act. This bipartisan legislation will create more equitable, inclusive, and expanded access to the outdoors for young people, families, veterans, and people across many communities. All we need is one more push to get this over the finish line.

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The Biden Administration Is On the Cusp of Limiting International Fossil Fuel Investments

The U.S. is supporting an international agreement to stop publicly financing oil and gas projects that exceed a set level of emissions. This means prioritizing clean energy projects over fossil fuel investments to ensure US taxpayers are not paying for more oil and gas projects that threaten the health of communities, ecosystems, and economy. This is an important step, and the Biden administration can still do more.

Urge President Biden to take every action he can to protect our health, climate, and future before leaving office.

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Designate New National Monuments Before It's Too Late

Beautiful landscapes across the country will be at more risk than ever under Trump. But President Biden can protect more public lands by designating new national monuments now before he leaves office.

It's time to permanently protect more treasured landscapes of this country and the historical sites that tell the diverse stories of our nation.

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Health effects of LNG | Photo by Sierra Club

Gas Hurts Our Health, Climate, and Pocketbooks

Today, President Biden's Department of Energy confirmed what frontline communities have long known: Methane gas exports (known as LNG) harm public health, raise energy costs, and worsen the climate crisis. There are six LNG terminals with pending applications, and we are calling on the Biden administration to deny these authorizations before leaving office.

Demand the Biden administration deny pending LNG!

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Get Outside in 2025

Nature invigorates, inspires, and heals, and we believe that the power of communing in the outdoors will be especially necessary throughout the next four years. Sierra Club Outings leads hundreds of volunteer-led, conservation-based adventures in the United States and abroad, designed to connect people with the outdoors and advocate for these wild places once they return home.

Hike, kayak, volunteer, and more in the wild lands that the Sierra Club defends.

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Tribal crews planting native species | Photo by Juliet Grable

Remaking the Klamath River

Over a hundred years ago, the Klamath River was caught up in the audacious endeavor to tame the West. Dams brought the magic of electricity to an isolated region. But they were a slow-burning emergency for those whose lives and identities had long been braided with the river.

Now, four of the dams are gone, a part of the largest dismantling of dams in US history, thanks to a coalition of tribes, fishermen, and environmentalists who would not stop imagining the Klamath flowing freely.

Acadia National Park coastline | Photo by John K. Putnam

This National Park is a Lab for Climate Change Mitigation Efforts

Acadia's vulnerability to rising seas and its rank among the most visited national parks in the country have made it a laboratory for how to confront the climate crisis on federally managed lands nationwide. The National Park Service is finding ways to either rehabilitate damaged park facilities or prepare them for climate impacts like spiking temperatures, ecosystem destabilization, and coastal erosion.

Learn more about why Acadia's vulnerability to the rising sea has made it a laboratory.

Greater white-fronted geese on the tundra west of Prudhoe Bay | Photo by Nathaniel Wilder

Oil Giants and the Incoming Trump Administration Hope to Spark a Drilling Boom on Alaska's North Slope

The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska may be the most misleadingly named landscape in North America. Its ungainly title conjures images of a huge oil field dotted with pumpjacks and drilling rigs—it sounds like the mirror image of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In reality, the tundra landscape looks largely the same as it did in 1923.

Now this vast sweep of wildlands is on the verge of becoming the future center of oil and gas extraction on Alaska’s North Slope.

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