Utah Chapter Sierra Club Home Page

Welcome to the web site of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club, a group of members and volunteer activists dedicated to preserving and enjoying the land and quality of life in Utah and the West.

Do you want to stay up-to-date on environmental issues in Utah? Check out our new email lists.

The Utah Chapter of the SierraClub now accepts PayPal! Click here to donate on-line.

©Lin Alder

And you thought the rate of growth in Utah’s Dixie was already too fast. Is it time to rush into the next step, a pipeline from Lake Powell? Or time for a little more reflection and study? Check it out here.

©Dennis Ghiglieri

How much of Utah’s water should Las Vegas be able to pump? Should farming take a back seat to more casinos and sprawl? Find out for yourself on a field trip to the scenic Snake Valley.

Sierra Club opposes Senator Bennett's latest Washington County lands bill.

2008 Legislative Scorecards! Check out how your representative and senator voted on the most important environmental bills this year.

©Lawson LeGate

Summer hiking season is here. Check out the chapter's special backpack page.

©JNW

This photo has a poetic, somewhat milky quality. Don't let it fool you. There's no poetry in the soup of toxic air besieging Salt Lake Valley. The solution is fewer automobile trips. Read about it here.

©Jamie Hoggard

More than twenty years ago, part of the Wasatch Range was protected as wilderness. We now have the best chance since then to protect the rest of the Wasatch Wilderness.

Urgent Alert! Governor Huntsman has taken a bold leadership stand on global warming, but some in his own party, such as Rep Mike Noel, claim global warming is a plot by UN scientists. Please help restore some sanity to the debate.

If Las Vegas pumps groundwater from underneath Utah's West Desert, it will potentially endanger a rural way of life and several unique species. The Sierra Club and its conservation allies have submitted a petition to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect a rare fish that serves as an indicator species, the least chub (pictured).

Alert! Three proposed coal burners upwind from the Wasatch Front would give Nevada 4,700 megawatts of new electricity, but our air quality might never recover. Tell Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons it's time for a TIME OUT.

Citizens all across the country are mobilizing against a rush of more than 150 new coal-fired electrical plants. Watch a video of the Utah Chapter's Smart Energy Director giving a presentation to the Sevier Citizens for Clean Air and Water, a well-organized group of locals who are fighting a proposed plant in their beautiful valley.

Energy Crisis? Global Warming? It's time for a new direction with positive action by addressing both of these critical issues simultaneously. Check out the Utah Global Warming Initiative, an effort to reduce Utah's greenhouse gas footprint, and sign the petition.

Energy Crisis? It's time for a new direction. Read about the solutions to Utah's energy problems!

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