Mother Lode Chapter, Sierra Club

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.
https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q0000029KpHAAU

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/

04/18/2024

It's Earth Month! Hope you can join some of the great events and protests this month especially.

04/17/2024

Solar developers are struggling to avoid industrial scale solar installments on critical open spaces and habitat all over the country. The Bureau of Land Management is working to put guidelines in place to avoid such mistakes in the future.
Please read and weigh in, this is CRITICAL!

“Large-scale renewable development should be prioritized on structures or lands that have already been degraded from their natural state.”

01/12/2024

Save the American River Association has been following the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)/Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA)/Central Valley Flood Protection Board (CVFPB) levee work on portions of the Lower American River. Many have seen the erosion protection measures at Paradise Beach, Campus Commons Golf Course, H Street Bridge, and Sac State/Howe. These huge engineering projects resulted in almost total removal of trees and vegetation from the Lower American River and Parkway.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
The Corps has recently released the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIS/SEIR) which includes the next phase of their erosion protection measures (Contract 3B). The upcoming Contract 3B envisions similar devasting impacts to areas of the River and Parkway between Howe Avenue bridge and Watt Avenue bridge, continuing a mile upstream of the Watt Avenue bridge to the vicinity of Mayhew/Rio Bravo Circle on the River's south bank, and Estates Drive on the north bank. The work includes access ramps behind Rio Bravo and an equipment staging area in Larchmont Community Park.
Parkway advocates and concerned citizens are mobilizing to question the
efficacy of these massive erosion protection measures in the areas of the River and Parkway identified in Contract 3B. You can support this effort in the following ways:
1) Attend one of USACE's scheduled virtual public meetings:
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Link to January 10 Webex Meeting
Or, join by phone: 1(844) 800-2712
Access code: 2763 131 8567 #
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Link to January 16 Webex Meeting
Or, join by phone: 1(844) 800-2712
Access code: 2763 755 9029 #

03/21/2023

Join Us! Today at 11:30 am. We will make ourselves be heard. Let's tell these bank they need to STOP bankrolling climate chaos! STOP funding fossil fuels and to***co products both are devastating from production, consumption, to disposal.