Legislative Updates from the Delta Chapter

Delta Chapter Sierra Club Chair Woody Martin and our Legislative Action Team are in Baton Rouge throughout the regular State Legislative session contacting legislators and speaking on bills in committee. Their freshest update on June 4th is now available for your review. Regularly they send requests for Sierrans to contact their legislators on bills of concern to conserving our environment, the public health, and matters of our rights under law more broadly. To follow their updates, sign up for email alerts, and to get involved, visit the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club's political and legislative page for more:

https://sierraclub.org/louisiana/legislative-update

Using Your Voice for our Environment in Louisiana

Louisiana Legislature Early Update, Sign up for Legislative Action List

The Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club works at a statewide level on issues of concerns to Sierra Club members in Louisiana.  Chapter Chair Woody Martin coordinates our mother chapter's Legislative Action Team to bring some environmental progress-minded citizen advocacy to Baton Rouge.  The Chapter's L.A.T. also is attentive to regulatory issues held in public hearing by the executive agencies of government, as well as the Public Service Commission which regulates utilities here in the State (excepting utilities in City of New Orleans boundaries.) 

To get involved in the very important work of this volunteer team during what will be the most important legislative sessions in decades, visit the following link to read the Early Update and to get signed up today.  http://lasierraclub.org/node/359

The Louisiana Environmental Briefing Book is now available.

The Louisiana Environmental Briefing Book has just been released. It was produced to educate Louisiana legislators on environmental issues in our state that affect us all. Even if you are not in the Louisiana legislature, it is worth reading because it is chock full of timely information about environmental issues in our state that every concerned citizen needs to be aware of.

The Environmental Briefing Book was produced by:

• Sierra Club, Delta Chapter


• The Gulf Restoration Network (GRN)


• Coalition to Restore Costal Louisiana


• Alliance for Affordable Energy


• The Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN)


• Louisiana Bayoukeeper


• The Atchafalaya Basinkeeper


• The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper


• The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation


• The Green Zone Task Force


• The Louisiana Audubon Council (LAC)


• MQVN Community Development Corporation (MQVNCDC)


• The Land Trust for Southeast Louisiana


• Say Yes to Clean Energy and No to Coal and Nuclear Coalition


• Mercy Corps

Read the Louisiana Environmental Briefing Book at the Louisiana Environmental
Briefing Book Website: http://labriefingbook.org/ or download the large PDF file (2.89 Mb). It's a huge file but well worth the download time, only a couple of seconds on a broadband connection.