

California environmental laws are essential to meet housing and climate goals
by Lisa Ross, Josh Chatten-Brown and Peter Andersen San Diego Union Tribune January 23, 2026 San Diegans deserve sensible housing that offers protection from wildfires, traffic gridlock and the ravages of climate change. Sierra Club San Diego favors smart and affordable housing, and we are proud of our record supporting sensible development designed to ensure the health and safety of future residents and existing neighborhoods. This includes San Diego State University’s Missi


Opinion: The Fairbanks field follies are one more city land-use botch
by Lisa Ross San Diego Union Tribune January 22, 2026 The latest chapter in the city of San Diego’s woeful public lands playbook would be farcical if it wasn’t so tragically misguided by the latest failure to properly manage the city’s open space in the San Dieguito River Valley basin for the public’s benefit. The plot twist delivered in October centers on the City Council’s approval of a new exclusive lease concocted by the city attorney worth millions to a private nonprofi


Opinion: The Looming War on Federal Environmental Protections Will Hurt San Diegans
by Lisa Ross Times of San Diego November 15, 2024 “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…” — Henry V, Act III As the winds of war on the environment stir ominously on the horizon, we at the San Diego Chapter of Sierra Club stand at the ready to defend our hard-fought gains on behalf of habitat preservation, environmental justice, and climate action as we have before throughout our 76-year history. There is some solace in that there have been significant guardr


Save Our Sequoias Act will hurt California’s beloved trees
"Act would create a hole in National Environmental Policy Act regulations big enough for a logging truck to drive through"


The 101 Ash St. scandal is just one problem. Time for a grand jury to investigate
BY LISA ROSS San Diego Union-Tribune AUG. 27, 2020 6:31 PM PT “Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray!” So says Malcolm...


San Diego's Navarro odd addition to Trump team?
Donald J. Trump’s billionaire boys’ club economic team, charged with saving the working class, has but one academic economist outlier:...












