By Conner Everts & Kellie Prather Southern California Cities are moving towards independence from imported water from faraway watersheds and the Bay Delta Estuary. Given the extremes of dry and wet weather with climate change, forward thinking Southern California...
Angeles Chapter’s Water Committee’s newer member Shirley Nixon, a former public interest environmental lawyer from WA state, ponders her continuing discoveries of differences between Washington & California’s approaches to water management. As I drove south from...
By Bryan Baker To the untrained eye and incurious, the California desert may seem a barren wasteland. When I was a kid, my family would drive across the desert toward points east or north, and I’d be bored through the hours it took to get through the seemingly endless...
By Yvonne Martinez Watson The Whittier Narrows Dam is an earthen dam constructed in 1957 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The dam stretches across a narrow gap between the Montebello Hills and the Whittier Hills at the confluence of the Rio Hondo and San...
Why isn't the LA Regional Board Doing More to Protect Groundwater? Protecting Groundwater Through the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board By: Annelisa Ehret Moe, Heal the Bay & Charming Evelyn From the mountains, through our streets, rivers, and...
By Evelyn Wendel WeTap and the Sierra Club are the perfect ‘water partners.’ Collaboration and communication are the keys to healthy communities and a clean environment. The mission of WeTap is to: Bring greater awareness to the high-quality, publicly provided...
By Sydney Pitcher and Barry Pulver 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...
[Update: Because of this article, BAWSCA's CEO, Nicole Sandkulla, reached out to Sierra Club California staff to share an update on the Board's progress to return remote participation. They shared that technical difficulties have delayed their efforts but that live...
As we close out Black History Month and look to spring, it’s imperative we continue the conversation about how climate change disproportionately impacts communities of color. Charming Evelyn from the Sierra Club shares the ever-growing importance of intersectional environmentalism and outlines some of the challenges these communities face.
See the Sierra Club's CEQA factsheet here. March 27, 2022 For more than 50 years, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has been one of the most important disclosure laws in the state. Since then-Governor Ronald Reagan signed it into law in 1970, CEQA has...