Take action on global warming and energy

We are at a historic crossroads in the fight against climate change. The Sierra Club is asking its activists and chapters to help in this critically important fight by committing to daily, weekly, or monthly actions as a Sierra Club Climate Leader. Sign up at www.sierraclub.org/climateleaders

Our first priority is an education campaign to encourage people to support the Obama administration's use of rules and regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies to address climate change. We call this campaign "the Big Picture". Using a very successful online petition and massive phone outreach, activists are asking senators to urge President Obama to create rules as quickly as possible that will regulate coal ash, mercury, mining, soot, smog, and carbon pollution more effectively. To learn more visit the Big Picture Campaign

Our other campaign, also dependent on your hard work, focuses on passing strong comprehensive climate and energy legislation in Congress. Earlier this year, the House of Representatives took the first step toward unleashing a true clean-energy revolution by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Our attention is now on the Senate, which has started discussing its version of the bill and will begin voting in early fall. We urge senators to strengthen this bill to create good clean-energy jobs, make polluters pay for the carbon pollution that causes global warming, and provide assistance for energy costs - and to help the United States lead the world at the international climate-treaty talks in Copenhagen.

We need your help to get people to say to their senators, "Support a strong clean energy and climate bill." Visit the ACES home page

It is time to commit to create a groundswell of support for clean energy and global-warming priorities. Sign up to become a Climate Leader and invite 10 friends to do the same.