Blog posts from around the country
North Star Chapter
Saint Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood is a thriving, diverse community and home to many immigrant families and Black owned businesses. But Rondo also has a history shaped by racist highway construction, and right now we have a chance to right…
Oregon Chapter
After two years of work, the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) and the Oregon State University (OSU) College of Forestry have drafted a plan that would transfer the Elliott Forest to OSU and create an Elliott State Resource Forest. Thank you to…
Massachusetts Chapter
The MBTA faces significant service cuts in 2021 unless lawmakers act to fill a budget shortfall. Without additional funding, the MBTA service cuts will cause damage to our region's environment and economy, prevent people from getting where they need…
Massachusetts Chapter
If you live in a town that didn’t ask people to conserve water this last summer and fall (and if you didn’t look at the streams and rivers around you), you might not have noticed it, but most of New England was drying up. By early October, 90% of…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
If someone with a petition tries to corner you outside a shopping center in Ventura County, run the other way and not just because of the increasing risk of COVID.
The petition is an attempt by oil companies to make an end run around environmental…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
We’re not tired of winning yet. The national Sierra Club is geared up and ready “to leverage the momentum coming out of our political work to build even more power for our ongoing chapter, policy and campaign outcomes,” said Ramón J. Cruz, Sierra…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
You may think #Giving Tuesday is over, but it isn’t as the donation match for the Sierra Club goes all the way through Dec. 31.
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
This chronicle of Jim Hines (our vice-chair, Ventura Conservation Director, and lobbyist) was compiled from his emails to our Executive Committee. Starting from a pessimistic email of Oct 9, you will read about how his lobby efforts on the national…
New Jersey Chapter
A whistle-blower lawsuit filed against New York Waterway by two employees has been unsealed, according to a New York Times article published today. The lawsuit claims that NY Waterway illegally dumped raw sewage, oil, fuel, coolant, and other…