Mother Lode Chapter, Sierra Club

06/13/2026

ATTENTION!
The Board of Supervisors (BOS) has scheduled a vote on the Upper Westside project for Tuesday, June 16 at 2 pm. Please Plan to attend at 700 H St, Sacramento to support a no vote.
The vote is to approve or deny this project which will rezone over
2,000 acres of farmland to enable residential and commercial
development.
The fundamental reason to oppose this project is that the County
should not build an unincorporated city, the size of Galt, in a flood zone, next to the Sacramento River. It will destroy valuable farmland and wildlife habitat. The project will add over 20,000 people to Natomas and will not improve main transportation arteries, resulting in increased traffic and congestion. This project also flouts long-standing agreements between the City and the County.
For more info see:
The Environmental Council of Sacramento Natomas Campaign by clicking on the link below: See less

THE ISSUE Developers are at it again. Our open space in Natomas is threatened. This precious land would be covered by acres of concrete, warehouses, and exhaust-spewing semi trucks. Every day food-producing farm land, open spaces, and critical habitat disappears in the name of profit. But

11/15/2025

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11/14/2025

See you all tonight

THANK YOU to all of our 2025 Environmentalist of the Year Awards sponsors! We could not host this event each year without our sponsors! Learn more about the event, happening this Friday 11/14/2025, on our website. https://www.ecosacramento.net/events/eoy/

06/21/2024

Why CEQA is important

Statistics show that underserved communities have higher rates of cancer, asthma, and other health risks. Grecia Orozco, Staff Attorney from the Center on Ra...

06/01/2024

Sierra Club and ECOS filed a critical lawsuit against Caltrans this week to challenge the 1-80 Highway widening project for taking us in the wrong direction and perpetuating climate injustice.

Caltrans violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by failing to acknowledge that freeway widenings do not produce less congestion but, in fact, result in increased traffic -- leading to worse congestion and pollution - due to “Induced Demand”.

According to the Sierra Club Yolano Group Chair, Alan Pryor, “The EIR for the I-80 widening shows Caltrans is stuck in reverse when we need to move our region forward by investing in real alternatives to congestion that don’t just put more cars on our roads and smog in our air. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars laying down concrete and asphalt that locks us into a future of car dependency at the expense of community health and our environment, Caltrans needs to get serious about real alternatives such as improved frequency and access to public transit."

(From press release) On May 29, the Sierra Club and the Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS) filed a lawsuit against Caltrans alleging legally inadequate environmental analysis of the I-80 freeway widening project through Yolo County. The lawsuit’s goal is to stop Caltrans from widening 17 m...

05/04/2024

If you are in Sacramento this Thursday from 3-6pm come by our chapter office to volunteer. We will be handwriting post-it notes to be included in our fundraising letters.

There will be Food and Fun conversation so please register.
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04/18/2024

See you at one of the Earth Day Events in our region. Our Sacramento Group volunteers will be at this event.
Not in Sacramento? Don't worry! Our amazing volunteers will be all around our region tabling about local efforts and celebrating this wonderful planet of ours.

THANK you to all of the sponsors of Sacramento Earth Day 2024! This landmark annual event depends on the support of sponsors like these! https://www.ecosacramento.net/sacearthday/