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.

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Read a message from Utah Chapter Chair Wayne Hoskisson about the despicable last attacks of the Bush Administration on Utah wild lands.

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The 2009 General Session of the Legislature is just around the corner. We'll be keeping track daily of the best and worst of the session from an environmental perspective on the Bill Tracker.

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Boondoggle Alert! Hatch & Bennett are peddling shale oil as the solution to the energy crisis. Send a message to Gov. Huntsman to put this brilliant proposal in the round file.

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

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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.

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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.

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Depressed by high gas prices? Confused by the competing claims? Find out about how we can move away from fossil fuels without breaking the bank.

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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).

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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.

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