Maryland Chapter Blog

Mallows - Potomac National Marine Sanctuary will be the first new National Marine Sanctuary in nearly 20 years - and the first ever in the Chesapeake Bay!  Mallows Bay Potomac Marine Sanctuary Please support this nomination. Tell the National...

TOMORROW: SENATE TO VOTE ON PRUITT.    Ask Senator Ben Cardin to VOTE NO ON PRUITT!The Senate is taking up a cloture vote today and will do a formal vote tomorrow (Friday) on the nomination of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental...

From the office of Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich:ROCKVILLE, Md., February 14, 2017—Montgomery County Council today unanimously approved a resolution, introduced by Councilmember Marc Elrich, urging the Maryland General...

In the beginning of February, the Maryland House and Senate voted to put the Clean Energy Jobs Act into law (again),This bill, passed in 2016, ensures that Maryland gets 25% of its electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2020...

On Monday January 30th, 2017, the Sierra Club and partner organizations sent the following letter to Ben Grumbles, Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environmenta, regarding Maryland's involvement in the Volkswagon settlement.  We the...

Nicole Veltre, who is the Sierra Club Baltimore Inspiring Connections Outdoors Co-Chair, as well as a science teacher at Digital Harbor High School (DHHS) in Baltimore City, likes to reinforce a “lead by example” attitude that shows rather than...

It may not have been her intention, but Senator Joan Carter Conway rallied the anti-fracking troops on Jan. 26 when she defiantly said, “You cannot get a ban off the Senate floor—simple as that.” Several hundred people were in Annapolis for the...

On December 20, 2016 the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, & Legislative Review of the Maryland General Assembly held a hearing on the fracking regulations released by MDE. We attended to offer testimony and show our opposition to...

 From Mike Brune, Sierra Club Executive Director.December 8, 2016Exactly 20 years ago, on December 8, 1996, 40 people at a meeting on globalization and trade agreed on a set of six principles for democratic organizing. The...

On November 4th, the Sierra Club wrote a letter to University of Maryland, College Park president Wallace D. Loh, expressing concern over the University's shift towards synthetic artificial turf athletic fields.  Earlier this year Doron...