Blog posts from around the country

Maryland Chapter
Don't miss the best investment opportunity of a lifetime...a Sierra Club internship.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Here are a few well edited videos that illustrate and explain the glass recycling process. Advances in glass sorting technologies...
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The City of Houston has added more glass recycling drop off locations in recent weeks. Through a new partnership with Strategic Materials Inc., North America's largest glass recycler, the City is trying to provide citizens with more options to…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Over a year after first discovering deceptive plans to export coal through the Oakland Army Base, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously on July 19 to ban coal and petroleum coke (petcoke) storage and handling in the city. The ordinance became…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
In a year when empty boasts and bravado are all too prevalent on the national stage, I want to tell you about two people who have quietly and tirelessly served our country for decades. Rangers Betty Reid Soskin and Mia Monroe embody the best of the…
Lone Star Chapter
Last week, the San Antonio City Council approved the SA Tomorrow Plan, which comprises sustainability, transportation, and comprehensive plans through 2040. The plans were drafted by the city's Office of Sustainability with more than a year of…
Florida Chapter
Sierra Club and two other groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its issuance of three Clean Water Act permits that would allow construction of the Florida Southeast Market Pipelines Project.
Grand Canyon Chapter
Conservation groups today asked the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) to deny air permits for three uranium mines near Grand Canyon and to continue monitoring a mine that is no longer active.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Point Molate is the large but little-known hilly peninsula jutting northward into the Bay at Richmond's western edge. The fate of this historic and ecologically important resource is being decided without public participation, in closed-session…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
A critical phase in the campaign to stop Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed giant tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has begun.