Blog posts from around the country
Washington State Chapter
The Columbia River Team is charged with speaking for the national Sierra Club on modernizing the Columbia River Treaty and restoring salmon above Grand Coulee Dam, returning home to ancestral spawning waters of time immemorial.
Angeles Chapter
Same tradition, different rules.
2020 saw recreation in our city centers severely limited, restricting human interactions and forcing isolation in homes.
Virginia Chapter
Today marks one year since George Floyd was lynched by a police officer. The brutality we witnessed that day is not an unprecedented or infrequent reality for Black Americans.
York River Group of the Virginia Sierra Club / Virginia Chapter / Virginia
The Sierra Club York River Group held a virtual event online to celebrate the history and natural wonders at our Virginia parks. With a primary focus on the Great Dismal Swamp, the event highlighted that area's importance, both environmentally as…
North Star Chapter
The regular 2021 Minnesota Legislative Session has adjourned, but they will be going into extra innings with their work unfinished. The good news is, it’s not too late for Senate Republicans to choose people and communities over polluters.
North Carolina Chapter
After a hectic few weeks leading up to crossover, this was a quiet week at the NC General Assembly. Senate leadership grabbed the opening to use the gasoline shortage stemming from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown to promote fracked gas pipelines.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The METRONext transit referendum, passed in late 2019, includes several new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines and light rail line extensions. METRO is prioritizing the Inner Katy BRT and the University BRT lines, as construction of those two lines will…
North Star Chapter
Today, the Sierra Club North Star Chapter announced its endorsement in the City of Minneapolis Mayoral race in a statement by Michelle Hesterberg, Co-Chair of the chapter’s Minneapolis Political Committee.