Blog posts from around the country

Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Last summer, Bayou City Waterkeeper sued the Corps, challenging its decisions to allow development over wetlands and increase flood risk for residents in the Bayou Brae neighborhood of League City, Texas. ... (Read more)
New Jersey Chapter
Today, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) announced its plans to reevaluate the current proposal for a 34 MW gas fired power plant in the Ironbound community of Newark. The PVSC will be expanding stakeholder engagement and starting a…
Toiyabe Chapter
Nevada's Legislature became the first in the nation to pass a resolution in support of protecting 30% of Nevada's lands and waters by the year 2030. Now we need Congress to follow through and protect these important landscapes. Find out here how you…
Idaho Chapter
By: Shiva Rajbhandari Boise High School youth salmon advocates had an extraordinary last day of school when Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson paid them a visit. To acknowledge nearly 800 pro-salmon postcards that students gathered and delivered to…
Kentucky Chapter
Meet Kari Miller By Janet Worne Mansfield Kari Miller has chosen a busy and adventurous path through life and that’s the way she likes it.
Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
Blog post by Elizabeth Scrafford, Sierra Club Organizing Manager about the urgent need to pass climate legislation.
North Carolina Chapter
Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order committing North Carolina to support offshore wind development goals of 2.8 gigawatts by 2030 and 8.0 gigawatts by 2040. The targets "are a clear message to clean energy investors that North Carolina will…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
In Marin County, an opportunity for reparations is playing out in Golden Gate Village, the only majority-Black public housing in the county. A green preservation-based plan for renovation of all 300 units was developed by the Golden Gate Village…
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
The Trust for Public Lands Survey gave the county a poor rating. Their report explains that while doing better than the survey indicates, more work and funding is needed.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Single-family zoning is something that doesn’t even exist in most other countries, yet it constitutes the majority of residentially zoned land in every state of the union and 70 percent of all residential zoning in America. It started in Berkeley,…