The three groups that sued the EPA include the Sierra Club, the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) and Mossville Environmental Action Now, which is based in Mossville, La., a predominantly African-American town near several chemical plants.
Read the full story here:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6073560.html
Showing posts with label Sierra Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sierra Club. Show all posts
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Got You Tube?
The Sierra Club does. Check out the Club's You Tube page. You might even learn a thing or two; like how to install a programmable thermostat, or a low flow shower head or how to compost in your own backyard. Good stuff just in time for Earth Day.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Welcome to our new Senior Regional Representative
Sierra Club Friends – On behalf of the staff of the Sierra Club’s Southeast Office, I would like to welcome Jill Mastrototaro as our new Senior Regional Representative – Manager (Northern Gulf Coast). Jill will manage the delivery of our programs within the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. She will begin her service to the Sierra Club effective March 10 and will be based in New Orleans, LA. Our office in Baton Rouge, LA will then be closed.
A native of Connecticut, Jill has also spent the past decade residing in the New Orleans, LA area. Over the past eight and a half years Jill has led advocacy and outreach efforts for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation in southeast Louisiana’s 10,000-square mile watershed.
Jill’s experience includes monitoring and lobbying state and federal laws including the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, spearheading a coalition to protect cypress forests, launching a campaign on sprawl using multiple media outlets, leading the state’s first effort to quantify wetland loss from unplanned development, and creating and implementing regional strategic conservation plans.
Her successes include leading a broadly based coalition in getting Wal-Mart to stop the purchase and sale of cypress mulch harvested or manufactured in Louisiana, thwarting proposals such as cell towers, subdivisions, or a 10,000-acre airport in ecologically sensitive areas, protecting already stressed waterways from receiving millions of gallons of wastewater effluent, and mobilizing hundreds of volunteers to protect natural resources.
Jill has authored a myriad of resources such as, A Citizen’s Guide to Protecting Wetlands in the Pontchartrain Basin, and more recently, Growing Smarter: Guidelines for Low Impact Development in the Pontchartrain Basin, which have engaged and trained thousands of citizens. Jill is the founding Vice-President of the Land Trust for Southeast Louisiana, the only grassroots-based, land conservation group active in the state, and she chairs the Land Committee, negotiating land acquisitions and to-date securing $100,000 in endowment funds. She also is working to create a regional Gulf Coast network of land conservation groups. Jill serves on the board of Smart Growth for Louisiana, a non-profit working to encourage responsible land use throughout the state.
She holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Policy from the State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, NY) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY).
We hope that you will join us in welcoming Jill to the Sierra Club family.
Thanks!
Regards – Jim Price, Southeast Staff Director, Sierra Club
A native of Connecticut, Jill has also spent the past decade residing in the New Orleans, LA area. Over the past eight and a half years Jill has led advocacy and outreach efforts for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation in southeast Louisiana’s 10,000-square mile watershed.
Jill’s experience includes monitoring and lobbying state and federal laws including the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, spearheading a coalition to protect cypress forests, launching a campaign on sprawl using multiple media outlets, leading the state’s first effort to quantify wetland loss from unplanned development, and creating and implementing regional strategic conservation plans.
Her successes include leading a broadly based coalition in getting Wal-Mart to stop the purchase and sale of cypress mulch harvested or manufactured in Louisiana, thwarting proposals such as cell towers, subdivisions, or a 10,000-acre airport in ecologically sensitive areas, protecting already stressed waterways from receiving millions of gallons of wastewater effluent, and mobilizing hundreds of volunteers to protect natural resources.
Jill has authored a myriad of resources such as, A Citizen’s Guide to Protecting Wetlands in the Pontchartrain Basin, and more recently, Growing Smarter: Guidelines for Low Impact Development in the Pontchartrain Basin, which have engaged and trained thousands of citizens. Jill is the founding Vice-President of the Land Trust for Southeast Louisiana, the only grassroots-based, land conservation group active in the state, and she chairs the Land Committee, negotiating land acquisitions and to-date securing $100,000 in endowment funds. She also is working to create a regional Gulf Coast network of land conservation groups. Jill serves on the board of Smart Growth for Louisiana, a non-profit working to encourage responsible land use throughout the state.
She holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Policy from the State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse, NY) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY).
We hope that you will join us in welcoming Jill to the Sierra Club family.
Thanks!
Regards – Jim Price, Southeast Staff Director, Sierra Club
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Prez's post
All,
Favorite Photo from "The Step It Up" Event in New Orleans. This is Warren, he came to the Step It Up event. Warren lives with his wife and family in the house behind him in the lower ninth ward, Holy Cross Neighborhood of New Orleans. He moved back post Katrina this January. The lower ninth now has ten solar collector locations and they want to rebuild carbon neutral.
The next best picture, will hopefully be in the New York Times with everyone sitting on the ninth ward levee with their red "Save New Orleans" T-Shirts on spelling out with their bodies STEP IT UP.
Thank you and congratulations Darryl Malek Wiley and Aaron Viles for organizing a hugely successful event.
Below is the outline of the speech I used - entitled - "WHY YOU WILL REMEMBER TODAY."
Lisa Renstrom
President
Sierra Club
Welcome
Thank you
You are going to remember today!
You are going to remember today because
Being here, in this iconic place, to ask Congress to step up their action to curb global warming is
1) a part of history
2) a part of a movement
3) a turning point
Today is a part of a larger history -
113 years ago, the Sierra Club was founded by men who knew that in wildness is the preservation of the world. This realization was the birth of the environmental movement. The Sierra Club was at its core.
In this first era of the Sierra Club and of the environmental movement, we recognized the value of protecting special places. This recognition went beyond preservation; it spilled over into literature and the arts. It became a permanent part of the American culture.
The next era, the 2nd era of the environmental movement was a reaction to pollution Brown air and burning rivers, Love Canal and Three Mile Island caught our attention. The industrial assault on our air and water quality, and unregulated chemical dumping rekindled America's environmental awareness. The Sierra Club responded. Modern environmental activism was born.
In the 1960's and 70's we took on the responsibility of protecting not only our special places, we took on the responsibility of protecting the health of Americans. The health of the planet.
This challenge, this responsibility, seemed colossal. It was literally and figuratively David versus Goliath. The villains though, were easy to see; the pollution, easy to identify; the cause and effect between toxins and life obvious.
People just like us, in fact many of us, faced the enormous challenge of educating Americans and enlisting them in environmental protection. We were bold and aggressive - adept at championing, passing and enforcing environmental legislation.
Today we are entering the third wave of the movement - the climate phase.
You are going to remember today because you are part of a movement.
Think of a movement as a confluence of rivers all flowing toward a gulf that opens to the sea.
Today we are seeing new rivers forming heading to this sea of social change.
The faith community's waters are rising with the moral imperative to care for Gods creation and fight climate injustice.
The business community waters are rising as they use their influence to demand a price on carbon
The tributaries that link these rivers are expanding and flowing.
The waters are rising and the movement is gaining momentum, velocity and power.
You are going to remember today because we are at a turning point.
Bill Moyers movement action plan (MAP) model of social movements indicates that we are in the "take-off" mode where movement groups proliferate, new tactics evolve, and the movement appears to be everywhere.
In the past 6 months we have seen California Governor Schwarzenegger pass the first legislation to reduce green house gas emission in every sector of the economy, COE of major fortune 500 companies call for immediate action to address Climate Change, a Presidential Candidate declare his campaign climate neutral, and a Supreme Courth ruling enabling the Federal Government to regulate carbon from vehicles. Green has become cool. Green has become the new patriotism, the new red white and blue.
You are going to remember today because we are standing in an iconic place.
We are standing on the levee, 20 months after Katrina, in the lower 9th Holy Cross neighborhood in New Orleans, asking Congress to Step It Up.
To take the steps necessary to reduce carbon 80% by 2050.
But - make no mistake about it - the Holy Cross Neighborhood association is not waiting for Washington - they are taking action NOW. They have committed torebuild the lower nine carbon neutral. They currently are producing more energy from renewable sources than the rest of New Orleans.
This neighborhood was devastated by flooding and resident were not allowed to reenter for almost a year. But today dozens of former and current Holy Cross residents are here, joined by 300 supporters.
So that is way we are going to remember today!
We have the solutions,
we are gathering the will.
We are a part of history,
a part of a movement and today is a turning point.
Thank you
Favorite Photo from "The Step It Up" Event in New Orleans. This is Warren, he came to the Step It Up event. Warren lives with his wife and family in the house behind him in the lower ninth ward, Holy Cross Neighborhood of New Orleans. He moved back post Katrina this January. The lower ninth now has ten solar collector locations and they want to rebuild carbon neutral.
The next best picture, will hopefully be in the New York Times with everyone sitting on the ninth ward levee with their red "Save New Orleans" T-Shirts on spelling out with their bodies STEP IT UP.
Thank you and congratulations Darryl Malek Wiley and Aaron Viles for organizing a hugely successful event.
Below is the outline of the speech I used - entitled - "WHY YOU WILL REMEMBER TODAY."
Lisa Renstrom
President
Sierra Club
Step It Up
Speech for first "Step It Up" Rally
9th Ward Levee, Holy Cross Neighborhood, New Orleans
Speech for first "Step It Up" Rally
9th Ward Levee, Holy Cross Neighborhood, New Orleans
Welcome
Thank you
You are going to remember today!
You are going to remember today because
Being here, in this iconic place, to ask Congress to step up their action to curb global warming is
1) a part of history
2) a part of a movement
3) a turning point
Today is a part of a larger history -
113 years ago, the Sierra Club was founded by men who knew that in wildness is the preservation of the world. This realization was the birth of the environmental movement. The Sierra Club was at its core.
In this first era of the Sierra Club and of the environmental movement, we recognized the value of protecting special places. This recognition went beyond preservation; it spilled over into literature and the arts. It became a permanent part of the American culture.
The next era, the 2nd era of the environmental movement was a reaction to pollution Brown air and burning rivers, Love Canal and Three Mile Island caught our attention. The industrial assault on our air and water quality, and unregulated chemical dumping rekindled America's environmental awareness. The Sierra Club responded. Modern environmental activism was born.
In the 1960's and 70's we took on the responsibility of protecting not only our special places, we took on the responsibility of protecting the health of Americans. The health of the planet.
This challenge, this responsibility, seemed colossal. It was literally and figuratively David versus Goliath. The villains though, were easy to see; the pollution, easy to identify; the cause and effect between toxins and life obvious.
People just like us, in fact many of us, faced the enormous challenge of educating Americans and enlisting them in environmental protection. We were bold and aggressive - adept at championing, passing and enforcing environmental legislation.
Today we are entering the third wave of the movement - the climate phase.
You are going to remember today because you are part of a movement.
Think of a movement as a confluence of rivers all flowing toward a gulf that opens to the sea.
Today we are seeing new rivers forming heading to this sea of social change.
The faith community's waters are rising with the moral imperative to care for Gods creation and fight climate injustice.
The business community waters are rising as they use their influence to demand a price on carbon
The tributaries that link these rivers are expanding and flowing.
The waters are rising and the movement is gaining momentum, velocity and power.
You are going to remember today because we are at a turning point.
Bill Moyers movement action plan (MAP) model of social movements indicates that we are in the "take-off" mode where movement groups proliferate, new tactics evolve, and the movement appears to be everywhere.
In the past 6 months we have seen California Governor Schwarzenegger pass the first legislation to reduce green house gas emission in every sector of the economy, COE of major fortune 500 companies call for immediate action to address Climate Change, a Presidential Candidate declare his campaign climate neutral, and a Supreme Courth ruling enabling the Federal Government to regulate carbon from vehicles. Green has become cool. Green has become the new patriotism, the new red white and blue.
You are going to remember today because we are standing in an iconic place.
We are standing on the levee, 20 months after Katrina, in the lower 9th Holy Cross neighborhood in New Orleans, asking Congress to Step It Up.
To take the steps necessary to reduce carbon 80% by 2050.
But - make no mistake about it - the Holy Cross Neighborhood association is not waiting for Washington - they are taking action NOW. They have committed torebuild the lower nine carbon neutral. They currently are producing more energy from renewable sources than the rest of New Orleans.
This neighborhood was devastated by flooding and resident were not allowed to reenter for almost a year. But today dozens of former and current Holy Cross residents are here, joined by 300 supporters.
So that is way we are going to remember today!
We have the solutions,
we are gathering the will.
We are a part of history,
a part of a movement and today is a turning point.
Thank you
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Treehugger.com reads Sierra magazine, do you?
TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Their goal is to make sustainability mainstream. If you want doom & gloom, don't go here. They are looking for solutions, constructive developments and positive initiatives, just like we are.
They read Sierra magazine, the magazine of the Sierra Club, and they like it. If you are a member of the Sierra Club, you already get the magazine as part of your membership. If you don't get Sierra, all you need to do is join the Sierra Club. It's easy to join online.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/print_mags_were.php
They read Sierra magazine, the magazine of the Sierra Club, and they like it. If you are a member of the Sierra Club, you already get the magazine as part of your membership. If you don't get Sierra, all you need to do is join the Sierra Club. It's easy to join online.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/print_mags_were.php
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
And the winner is...
I am pleased to announce that the Delta Chapter is the recipient of two of the 2006 Sierra Club National Awards.
The Delta Chapter and Aaron Viles have won the Environmental Alliance Award.
This award honors Club members or entities who have helped further environmental goals through collaboration with other, non-Sierra Club constituencies.
The award was given for the creation and ongoing efforts of the Gumbo Alliance an unlikely alliance between commercial fishermen, recreational fishers and environmental groups. Credit for creating this alliance goes to Aaron Viles, secretary of the Delta Chapter Executive Committee with staff support from Darryl Malik-Wiley.
Barbara Coman is the recipient of the Special Service Award.
The Special Service Award honors a Sierra Club member, committee or group for strong and consistent commitment to conservation or the Club over an extended period of time.
This award is given to Barbara in recognition of the many years and many different roles she has taken at all levels of the Club. Currently she is serving as the Sierra Club Gulf Environmental Restoration Taskforce Chair and as the Chair of the New Orleans Group.
An award ceremony will be held in San Francisco at the Council of Delegates Meeting in September.
A huge round of applause, congratulations to Aaron and Barbara. Thank you to the Darryl and Maura; all of the Delta Chapter members and Gumbo Alliance partners too!
Leslie March
Delta Chapter Chair
The Delta Chapter and Aaron Viles have won the Environmental Alliance Award.
This award honors Club members or entities who have helped further environmental goals through collaboration with other, non-Sierra Club constituencies.
The award was given for the creation and ongoing efforts of the Gumbo Alliance an unlikely alliance between commercial fishermen, recreational fishers and environmental groups. Credit for creating this alliance goes to Aaron Viles, secretary of the Delta Chapter Executive Committee with staff support from Darryl Malik-Wiley.
Barbara Coman is the recipient of the Special Service Award.
The Special Service Award honors a Sierra Club member, committee or group for strong and consistent commitment to conservation or the Club over an extended period of time.
This award is given to Barbara in recognition of the many years and many different roles she has taken at all levels of the Club. Currently she is serving as the Sierra Club Gulf Environmental Restoration Taskforce Chair and as the Chair of the New Orleans Group.
An award ceremony will be held in San Francisco at the Council of Delegates Meeting in September.
A huge round of applause, congratulations to Aaron and Barbara. Thank you to the Darryl and Maura; all of the Delta Chapter members and Gumbo Alliance partners too!
Leslie March
Delta Chapter Chair
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Welcome to the Sierra Club's Delta Chapter blog
Welcome to the blog for the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club. We have initiated this blog as a forum for discussion of the environment, and issues affecting it, in the State of Louisiana. We welcome input on relevant issues and reserve the right to delete posts that stray too far afield from the topic at hand.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)