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Share your opinion about fracking in Maryland
August 30, 2013
Maryland's Marcellus Shale Study Commission is conducting several studies as part of the process to determine if it is safe and appropriate to drill for gas in western Maryland's Marcellus shale formation. Take the survey now to voice...
Policy Trumps Science in Pennsylvania
August 30, 2013
Marylanders can look to the north to see how not to approach climate change and fracking. StateImpact, a project of two NPR stations in Pennsylvania, recently broke a story that should make all of us wary about fracking and state reports.The...
Intern Attends Choose Clean Water Conference
August 13, 2013
Working as a summer intern at the Sierra Club, Maryland Chapter, I was sent to attend the Fourth Annual Choose Clean Water Conference in Baltimore, MD (August 2013). As an environmental health major at the University of Maryland College Park and a...
Update from the Intern Splash Hike
August 2, 2013
As one of our intern-only activities, the Maryland office interns went on a splash hike on the Saturday morning of July 20th. Having never taken part in a hike through a river, none of us knew what to expect.One of the lasting impressions I got...
Get Involved in the Legislative Committee
June 30, 2013
The legislative session is an exciting and fast-paced time for environmental policy making, and lasts for 90 days from mid-January to April. The Sierra Club needs people like you to help us achieve success in Annapolis and to help protect the...
Curtis Bay Residents Call for Stronger Pollution Control on CSX Coal Export Facility
June 25, 2013
Curtis Bay, Maryland - This morning, Curtis Bay residents most affected by the CSX coal export facility’s inadequate water pollution safeguards gathered at a press conference along with two environmental groups—the Chesapeake Climate Action...
Help elect environmental candidates in 2014!
June 20, 2013
Do you want to help elect environmental champions to office here in Mayland? In 2014 Maryland will elect a new Governor and hundreds of state Senators, Delegates, and local officials. And Sierra Club will be there to support strong environmental...
Pollinator Week! Bee Excited
June 17, 2013
This is a worldwide problem. I watched the documentary the Vanishing of the Bees the other day and was amazed by the fact that Americans actually need to import bees from Australia just so we can pollinate and produce food. If the decline of bees...
Washington Post Not Quite Convinced on Cove Point
June 13, 2013
"It's been the slowest year I’ve had," says Scott Adams, as he watches lunch customers trickle into the Frying Pan, the restaurant he has owned for 23 years near Lusby in Southern Maryland. The rustic eatery on Route 765 is...
Prince George’s Sierra Club Presents 2013 Maloney Environmental Service Award to Vernon Wade, Sr.
June 7, 2013
College Park, MD, June 3 — Vernon Wade, Sr., a Fort Washington resident, is the 2013 recipient of the Prince George’s Sierra Club’s Walter “Mike” Maloney Environmental Service Award. Every year since 2005 the Prince George’s Group of the...