Blog posts from around the country
Florida Chapter
A state agency released a blistering 24-page rebuke of a proposed massive city in the Everglades while environmentalists renewed calls for the state to purchase sugar land to send water south.
Maryland Chapter
Earlier in November, I was lucky enough to spend some time outside of the office, and across the country, where I attended the Association of Outdoor Recreation Education Conference (AORE) in Portland, Oregon. AORE is an annual conference that…
Grand Canyon Chapter
November 26, 2014, GRAND CANYON, Arizona – The Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups will fight appeals filed yesterday by two mining lobbying groups challenging a ruling by Arizona U.S. District Court Judge David G. Campbell that upheld a ban on…
Lone Star Chapter
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new smog pollution proposal to lower the current 75 parts per billion (ppb) standard to one in the range of 65 ppb to 70 ppb, while also seeking comment on setting it as low as 60 ppb…
Lone Star Chapter
As a kid, I remember ozone being a good thing. There was a layer of it in the stratosphere that protected us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, but it was being destroyed by our use of chlorofluorocarbons like those found in aerosol sprays (remember…
Florida Chapter
With the holidays approaching, Sierra Club is thankful for all the hard work so many people put toward protecting the Florida Panther.
Maryland Chapter
Today the Maryland Fracking Commission issued the Final Report of the Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Commission. Among the expected recommendations included in the report are: • Requirement of zero methane leakage from wells,…
Maryland Chapter
Saturday November 22nd Baltimore Inspiring Connections Outdoors (BICO) hosted 17 participants at Southwest Baltimore Charter School for Outdoor Leadership Training 101! This training is designed to help potential leaders learn more about how to…