Maryland Chapter Blog

The release below by the Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition celebrates the proclimation made by Mayor Catherine Pugh to designate December 21st as Transit Equity Action Day in Baltimore:  For Immediate Release: December 21, 2018...

The General Assembly should act in 2019 to ban disposable food containers made of expanded polystyrene foam as an important step in reining in the plastic pollution crisis.

It is vitally important for the General Assembly to shift our State to creating a 21st Century, climate-friendly, clean transportation sector. Significant highway expansion is antithetical to accomplishing this, and the Maryland Sierra Club opposes...

It is clear that it is time for Maryland to prepare for, and undertake, the transition away from coal-fired power plants. In doing so, we must support impacted communities and workers in defining and implementing strategies which provide certainty...

Legislation is needed to ensure that proposed new gas pipelines are fully reviewed by the Maryland Department of the Environment to guard against harm to our drinking water and sensitive waterways.

Achieving 100% clean renewable energy grows ever more urgent. The General Assembly should act decisively in 2019 to put our state firmly on the necessary pathway.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 18, 2018) – Environmental, transportation, health, labor, and community organizations supporting modern, clean, equitable, and low-climate pollution transportation celebrated an announcement today from Maryland, 9 other...

ANNAPOLIS: On Wednesday, December 19th, the Maryland Board of Public Works will hold an agenda item at their regularly scheduled meeting to determine whether they will grant an Easement to install a natural gas transmission pipeline under the...

The world felt the heat from the severity of the 2018 IPCC report, the most up-to-date and comprehensive explanation of the science of climate change and the future of Earth. This report followed by another equally concerning comprehensive piece of...

Every season the Maryland Sierra Club welcomes a new group of interns to help us with our important work of protecting the environment.  Here are the fall 2018 interns. Semir Abdul Our transportation intern is from Greenbelt, MD, and is a...