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Extreme new laws now in effect in Montana and Wyoming offer bounties for killing wolves by baiting, snaring, shooting them from motorized vehicles and helicopters, and other unethical methods. The laws allow hunters to kill 85 and 90 percent of Montana’s and Wyoming’s gray wolves, respectively, and will almost certainly drive the animals back to the brink of extinction.
Urge Interior Secretary Haaland to reinstate protections for Northern Rockies gray wolves. |
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| The Hayden Library Reinvention at Arizona State University is LEED Platinum certified. |
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A record 328 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada participated in the Sierra Club’s 15th annual Cool Schools survey, which ranks schools according to their eco bona fides.
Find out who made the top 20. |
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For decades, the federal government has been essentially gifting public lands to fossil fuel companies. An astonishing 40 percent of all coal produced in the United States comes from our public lands. But you can help stop this giveaway. Between now and October 5, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting public comments on the federal coal leasing program.
Add your voice: Tell the BLM to keep fossil fuels in the ground. |
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The Sierra Club’s efforts to curb coal dust pollution figure prominently in two recent episodes of The Meaning of Green, a podcast hosted by Vivian Thompson, former member of the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board. "Coal Dust is Black" shines a light on the poisoning of a small town in the coalfields of western Virginia, while "The Power Game" reveals how low-income and Black communities in maritime Virginia disproportionately bear the brunt of coal dust pollution. Thompson shows how these disparate locales share a common enemy: Fossil fuel companies that value profits over people and public health.
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RSVP for one or more of our virtual action parties, where we’ll put you to work posting on social media, making window signs, and reaching out to friends and family to get them to support the Build Better Act. Prefer phone banking? Get on the horn to Sierra Club supporters in Arizona and West Virginia and ask them to urge Senators Manchin and Sinema to pass this critical legislation.
Join us in the final push to get the Build Back Better Act across the finish line. |
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| The Searsburg Wind Energy Facility. | Photos by Tara Wray |
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In proudly progressive Vermont, consistently ranked as the second-most liberal state in the nation, everyone loves clean energy—so long as it’s produced somewhere else. Thanks to saavy organizing by NIMBY (“not in my back yard”) activists, large wind and solar projects have all but ground to a halt in the homeland of Ben & Jerry.
Learn how NIMBYs have stymied green energy production in the Green Mountain State. |
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More than a third of the resident elk herd at Point Reyes National Seashore in California died last year. The Park Service says the deaths are due to the normal ebb and flow of the herd. But environmental groups including the local Sierra Club say it’s more like a safari park than a national park, and the Park Service needs to step in and keep the herd’s numbers from going into free fall.
Read this dispatch from Point Reyes National Seashore. |
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Hundreds of people across the country are participating in a Hike-A-Thon for climate action. City Hike is a nationally powered, locally experienced self-guided event to raise money to protect our planet. City Hike is a nationally powered, locally experienced self-led event to raise money to protect our planet. You can hike wherever you are using AllTrails, and we’ll provide you an immersive experience via the Glide App.
Will you join the hundreds of people who are hiking for climate action? |
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| | | Sierra Club Outings |
Kick off your 2022 travels with one of our international or domestic trips, now live and ready for reservations. Many trips that had to be canceled in 2021 are now available for rebooking in 2022.
See all trips and sign up. |
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