Blog posts from around the country

Pennsylvania Chapter
David Sublette, a long-time Sierra Club member in Erie, PA, led an effort last summer to make sure Monarch butterflies migrating through Erie knew they were welcome. With help from a Huplits Wildlife Grant, a section of McClelland Park has been…
Pennsylvania Chapter
A group of volunteers from Sierra Club’s Southeastern PA Group has commissioned an exploratory mapping of gas leaks in Philadelphia. They have connected with Gas Safety USA for this mapping, the same people who mapped gas leaks in Boston a few years…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Between 2011 and 2018, the greater Williamsport area was transformed from a small city surrounded by bucolic countryside into a gritty industrial park consisting of parking lot-sized well pads cleared of all trees, drilling rigs towering over…
Southeastern Pennsylvania Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Philadelphia Pennsylvania
There had been a service station with gas pumps there for as long as I can remember, right on the corner just past the modest little strip mall and fast food joint. As the only gas on the west side of State Route 320 for many miles, that part of…
Pennsylvania Chapter
There had been a service station with gas pumps there for as long as I can remember, right on the corner just past the modest little strip mall and fast food joint. As the only gas on the west side of State Route 320 for many miles, that part of…
Southeastern Pennsylvania Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Philadelphia Pennsylvania
“When you’re living among the trash, you begin to feel like trash yourself.” So said Zulene Mayfield about her neighborhood close to the Covanta Resource Recovery Facility, which is a waste incinerator, also called “trash to steam,’ in Chester, PA…
Pennsylvania Chapter
“When you’re living among the trash, you begin to feel like trash yourself.” So said Zulene Mayfield about her neighborhood close to the Covanta Resource Recovery Facility, which is a waste incinerator, also called “trash to steam,’ in Chester, PA…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Kelp forests, underwater coastal areas that contain “canopies” of the algae kelp, sustain a large number of species, which make them typically very resilient ecosystems. However, Northern California’s kelp forests have decreased in size by 95% from…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Tracy Daniels is one of those special volunteers who suggests a new idea and then is willing to take the lead in making it happen. One such idea is the position of Group Advocate. The Pennsylvania Chapter Executive Committee (ExCom) recently…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Our faith group, the Unitarian Environmental Justice Committee, on this momentous 50th anniversary of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA), will recognize Senator Franklin Kury for his tireless work in protecting Pennsylvania’s…