Blog posts from around the country
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Sometimes we overlook the natural riches that are right here in our own back yard. Because they have become familiar to us, we sometimes forget that they are also worthy of notice by a much wider audience....
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San Francisco Bay Chapter
Part of the Sierra Club's mission to "preserve and protect" wild places also involves looking at how we can safeguard natural open space in urban areas. The Northern Alameda County Group opposes the proposal by the City of Oakland to remove a…
Lone Star Chapter
The TCEQ was court ordered to hand over thousands of pages of documents to Sierra Club that they've been withholding from the public regarding their changes in rulemaking for ethylene oxide emissions, a super carcinogen. Rather than complying and…
Toiyabe Chapter
By now most in this region have heard of the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in north-central Nevada. This has triggered a flurry of articles by the news media, the mining industry, and of course conservation organizations. The chapter is…
Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
Waukegan Advocates say, “The world will not wait for Springfield, communities need clean energy transition now.”
Wisconsin Chapter
On June 5-8, thousands of people gathered in Northern Minnesota to stand against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, in a coordinated effort known as the Treaty People Gathering.
Georgia Chapter
Headwater streams in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest are threatened by chronic habitat damage
North Carolina Chapter
This week the House took up two of the bills we’ve been following, the Farm Act and a new House energy bill. Plus, the Senate moved forward an election bill that would narrow the window for voters to get in absentee ballots.
District of Columbia Chapter
Matthias Paustian of the Sierra Club testified before the Department of General Services (DGS) budget hearing about the need to ensure DC government building meet the District's clean energy and energy efficiency requirements.