Blog posts from around the country

Prince George's Group / Maryland Chapter / Maryland
Oral testimony on the Baltimore-Washington SC Maglev By Janet Gingold on behalf of the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club The Sierra Club recognizes the need to decrease the environmental impact of our travel a
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt MannchenDavid Johns has written a “whale” of a book that strikes at the heart of conservation: Are we winning? Why not? and how do we change and go in the right direction?... (Read more)
Maine Chapter
Testimony in Support of LD 815: An Act To Support School Decarbonization
Lone Star Chapter
April isn’t usually a time to worry too much about tight reserves in the ERCOT market, but thousands of megawatts of thermal power plants in outage, a cool front in some parts of the state, and warm temperatures led to unexpected cooling demand in…
North Star Chapter
My heart is broken. Again, another Black man, Daunte Wright, has been murdered by the police, this time in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota -- just 11 miles from where George Floyd was killed by police last year. While shocking to many, it's sadly not a…
New Jersey Chapter
Shawn Latourette has been named Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Florida Chapter
Rep. Omari Hardy and Rep. Anna Eskamani gathered Glades community leaders and emissions experts for a press conference to highlight the threats presented by HB 1601. See the entire virtual press conference.
Cherokee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
Cherokee April 2021 Newsletter and Program Information - Earth Day 2021 Events
Wyoming Chapter
In 2019, Debra Haaland’s nomination to the House of Representatives gave Native American women representation within the U.S. legal system for the first time in 243 years. Now, Haaland is taking on another historic role, as the U.S. Secretary of the…
Loxahatchee Group / Florida Chapter / Florida
The Boynton Beach polystyrene foam, balloons, and confetti ordinance passed first reading last night, unanimously, without any changes.