Maryland Chapter Blog

Tuesday December 15th at 4pm is the most critical moment yet in the effort to stop the nations' largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from schools. The Maryland Department of the Environment has the opportunity right...

As a surprise to most of us, gas bearing shale underlies much of the state of Maryland.  Specifically, the Taylorsville Basin runs northeastward from Richmond to Annapolis, under Prince George’s, Charles, Calvert, St. Mary’s, and Anne Arundel...

Tuesday December 15th at 4pm is the most critical moment yet in the effort to stop the nations' largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from schools. The Maryland Department of the Environment has the opportunity right...

Governor Hogan and his Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) have gutted a clean air plan that would have required Big Coal to clean up its act.Back in January the Governor blocked publication of a common-sense pollution cutting plan ...

Our most recent Chairperson, David Prosten, has retired, sold his home in Annapolis, and is moving to Cape Cod. We will miss him, and his tireless work for the environment.

We hope your signs are almost ready to go!!  Please join the Sierra Club Howard County group at 5:30 am at the Glenmont metro stop on Thursday September 24th!!  Rallies will be starting at 7:00 am in DC before the Pope's speech to...

Posted for Elaina Perry On a scorching day in late May, I walked alongside a fellow intern with a crowd of new friends. We marched as a group of about 200 along a six mile walk. As we walked, we clutched signs of all shapes, sizes, hues and styles...

Last Wednesday's Air Quality Control Advisory Council (AQCAC or “ack-ack”) meeting was rough, and Maryland backslid on years worth of progress when the council shockingly voted to support a new air quality plan from Governor Larry Hogan’s...

Do you ever wonder about the details of how we're going to move away from fossil energy at the rate every leading scientist says is necessary to to combat climate disruption? We found a pretty in-depth and exciting transition plan out there that we...

On Saturday, August 1st, 20 Sierra Club kayaktivists lead by Outings Leader Ken Clark and star intern Taliah Dommerholt paddled along the Middle River and Dundee Creek to visit one of Maryland's dirtiest coal-burning power plants: the C.P. Crane...