Blog posts from around the country

Thomas Hart Benton Group / Missouri Chapter / Kansas City Missouri
August 1 "120 Lives, 120 Sunflowers" Event Makes Huffington Post
Florida Chapter
Earthjustice filed suit asking the courts to force the Florida Legislature to return Amendment 1 funds to a conservation land buying fund.
Maryland Chapter
Last Wednesday's Air Quality Control Advisory Council (AQCAC or “ack-ack”) meeting was rough, and Maryland backslid on years worth of progress when the council shockingly voted to support a new air quality plan from Governor Larry Hogan’s…
District of Columbia Chapter
Have a look at a few new documents released by the Club's Board of Directors:  the Club's Strategic Plan (http://clubhouse.sierraclub.org/BOD-Strategic-Plan-2015.pdf),
Maryland Chapter
Do you ever wonder about the details of how we're going to move away from fossil energy at the rate every leading scientist says is necessary to to combat climate disruption? We found a pretty in-depth and exciting transition plan out there that we…
Grand Canyon Chapter
TUCSON, AZ – Tucsonans will breathe easier starting tomorrow, as Tucson Electric Power says they have burned the last bits of remaining usable coal today at its electric generating plant on Tucson’s south side.
North Star Chapter
Peabody Energy is having a tough time of things. As coal prices have declined over the last year, the world’s biggest private-sector coal company has seen its net income fall by more than 1300%, Its stock price plummet to under $1, and its credit…
Orange-Chatham Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
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Angeles Chapter
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Clemente was closed about two years ago because of safety flaws in steam generators that caused a small radioactive leak. But that wasn't the end of the story.
Maryland Chapter
On Saturday, August 1st, 20 Sierra Club kayaktivists lead by Outings Leader Ken Clark and star intern Taliah Dommerholt paddled along the Middle River and Dundee Creek to visit one of Maryland's dirtiest coal-burning power plants: the C.P. Crane…