Blog posts from around the country
Atlantic Chapter
by Peggy Kurtz and Gale Pisha After years of battles over an environmentally harmful and unsafe proposal for a desalination project in irreplaceable Hudson River habitat, Suez/United Water has asked for a fina
Atlantic Chapter
by Erin Riddle I am an avid cyclist, and during a recent ride, I passed a man walking around his yard carrying a container of RoundUp in one hand—the large container filled with this herbicide—and in the other
Lone Star Chapter
Today, Austin City Council approved a resolution on an 8-2-1 vote authorizing Austin Energy, the city-owned utility, to contract approximately 162 megawatts of solar energy. This decision means that Austin Energy will have approximately 600 MW of…
Toiyabe Chapter
The Nevada Conservation League and the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club released the following statements following the announcement that the US Fish and
Lone Star Chapter
In an extraordinary (and long) joint meeting of Austin’s Resource Management Commission (RMC) and Electric Utility Commission (EUC) last night, both bodies took slightly different approaches but sent a simple message to Austin City Council: Buy.…
Lone Star Chapter
The major Texas urban areas of Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria have had the worst ozone (aka smog) pollution in the state since the 1970s, when ozone monitoring began. In fact, these two areas have had among the nation's worst…