By Amanda Wallner, on April 20th, 2012 President Obama today will designate the nation’s newest national monument, Fort Ord National Monument in California. From 1902 to 1994, Fort Ord served as a unit garrison site and basic training base for Army soldiers who served in America’s conflicts from the Spanish-American War to Operation Desert Storm. The newly named Fort Ord National Monument contain 86 miles of trails through some of the last remaining open space in the Monterey Bay area.
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By Jim Metropulos, on April 12th, 2012 New net metering approach would increase local solar energy savings, jobs Contact: Jim Metropulos, (916) 5571100 x109, jim.metropulos@sierraclub.org
SAN FRANCISCO – California solar energy advocates today praised a proposed decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that, if approved, will likely boost renewable energy use by homeowners, businesses, and commercial uses and lower energy costs for both solar and non-solar energy ratepayers.
The proposal, put forward by PUC Chairman Michael Peevey, clarifies the methodology to . . . → Read More
By Jim Metropulos, on March 2nd, 2012 With 70 state parks slated to close this summer due to budget cuts, two North Coast legislators have introduced bills to help lessen the closures’ impact and to install a transparent and public process if the state should need to close any parks in the future.
The park closures were announced last summer, after the legislature passed the governor’s budget proposal to cut $22 million from the state park budget. Last fall, the legislature held an oversight hearing on the . . . → Read More
By Sierra Club CA, on February 27th, 2012
By Jim Metropulos, on February 24th, 2012 February 24, 2012 For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Metropulos, Sierra Club California
SACRAMENTO—Today Assemblymember Ben Hueso sent a letter on behalf of 40 Assemblymembers to Daniel W. Richards, requesting that he resign from his position as President of the California Fish & Game Commission. Richards shot a mountain lion and posed for pictures with the dead animal’s body while on a hunting trip in Idaho. Mountain lion hunting has been illegal in California since 1990, when voters approved Proposition . . . → Read More
By Annie Pham, on February 10th, 2012 With the economy still dwelling in the dirt, the last thing we need to worry about is something else that can poison us and our children. Mercury is one of those things and it is a very toxic metal that can affect brain and nerve function that can potentially impair the way we see, hear, walk and talk.
Sierra Club California played a vital role in passing the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2008, which requires manufacturers to create . . . → Read More
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