Blog posts from around the country

North Olympic Group / Washington State Chapter / Washington
Happy Holidays! 2022 was a very good year for Olympic Peninsula and Washington environmental activists. 
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
By popular demand, we continue with the Jim Hines Chronicles, which reflects the emails by our premier lobbyist on the ins and outs of environmental activism and is chock-full of information.
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Ben Jealous is the Sierra Club’s new Executive Director who is an experienced civil rights leader, community organizer, coalition builder and social justice activist.
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Here is some good news on the energy front for our region.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
This past October, the Sierra Club and 159 other organizations asked President Joe Biden to direct the EPA to establish discharge standards for ships' ballast water that comply with the Clean Water Act.
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Gaviota Coast Conservancy toured the 76 miles and some 200,000 acre mix of private and publicly-owned lands that are still under threat.
Lone Star Chapter
Austin City Council voted Dec. 8 to again raise rates for Austin Energy customers, approving a modified version of the utility’s proposal. With a 7-4 vote, council members approved nearly all of the revenue increase that the utility had requested.
Toiyabe Chapter
Our desert lands with their sagebrush valleys and red rock formations, our snow capped mountains, our lakes, rivers, and forests, are home to hundreds of plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world.
Toiyabe Chapter
The Federal Railroad Administration is currently conducting a long-distance service study that was mandated by the