Blog posts from around the country

Washington State Chapter
While the passage of Washington’s 100% Clean Energy legislation has attracted much media coverage, another key piece of legislation has quietly moved through the legislature that is also of critical importance to the environmental community’s energy…
North Carolina Chapter
This week at the NC General Assembly we saw Senate committees move two bills that the Chapter is working against. One would raise registration fees for electric vehicles to the highest in the country and another would allow electric utilities to…
San Gorgonio Chapter
Sierra Club, the Green New Deal, and the Inland Empire      Join us Tuesday May 7 at the San Bernardino County Museum for a program on the Sierra Club, the Green New Deal and the Inland Empire. We will see presentation describing just…
Wisconsin Chapter
On March 14, 2019, a Donald Trump appointee, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, proposed a rule to strip gray wolves throughout the continental United States of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections,…
Washington State Chapter
Would you believe me if I said we may recover the North Cascades grizzly bear under the Trump Administration?
Wisconsin Chapter
“Last week, thousands of citizens across Wisconsin made their voices heard on a variety of issues at the Conservation Congress meetings. We are very excited that the question about restoring funding for the state parks was approved by 86% and passed…
Massachusetts Chapter
State law allows MLPs to develop their own generation capabilities, something investor-owned utilities are prohibited from doing. This means that MLPs have more freedom to determine the towns energy mix. By virtue of their non-profit status and…
Massachusetts Chapter
Roughly three years ago, I ate a diet heavy in dairy, and had meat most days of the week. Granted, I have never had a taste for red meat, and mostly just ate chicken and turkey. I consumed dairy daily, despite growing up with an intolerance to…
Lone Star Chapter
It can be jarring to see bad vote tallies after you put in so much work raising awareness across the state about something so clearly risky, such as allowing our rubber stamp state agency (TCEQ) to issue permits for frackers to dump their wastewater…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
The developer Blackhawk Nunn Partners wants to push back Brentwood’s urban limit line to build 2,400 single-family homes outside city limits. What is now 800 acres of beautiful rolling hills and active farmland would become hundreds of acres of…