Blog posts from around the country
Massachusetts Chapter
If you live in a town that didn’t ask people to conserve water this last summer and fall (and if you didn’t look at the streams and rivers around you), you might not have noticed it, but most of New England was drying up. By early October, 90% of…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
If someone with a petition tries to corner you outside a shopping center in Ventura County, run the other way and not just because of the increasing risk of COVID.
The petition is an attempt by oil companies to make an end run around environmental…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
We’re not tired of winning yet. The national Sierra Club is geared up and ready “to leverage the momentum coming out of our political work to build even more power for our ongoing chapter, policy and campaign outcomes,” said Ramón J. Cruz, Sierra…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
You may think #Giving Tuesday is over, but it isn’t as the donation match for the Sierra Club goes all the way through Dec. 31.
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
This chronicle of Jim Hines (our vice-chair, Ventura Conservation Director, and lobbyist) was compiled from his emails to our Executive Committee. Starting from a pessimistic email of Oct 9, you will read about how his lobby efforts on the national…
New Jersey Chapter
A whistle-blower lawsuit filed against New York Waterway by two employees has been unsealed, according to a New York Times article published today. The lawsuit claims that NY Waterway illegally dumped raw sewage, oil, fuel, coolant, and other…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Sierra Club’s Los Padres Chapter has protected our environment in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties for more than 60 years. But we’ve never seen a year like this. No one has been left untouched by the multiple crises we face -- from the pandemic to…
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
As president-elect, Joe Biden intends to prioritize climate action more than any president before him. Quantifying the expected impact of Biden’s presidency on climate change, however, remains difficult.
Pennsylvania Chapter
There are cold, clear streams running through rural, pristine forests in the Lehigh Valley that contain such toxic levels of heavy metals that fish and other aquatic organisms cannot survive in them. In past coal mining days, pipes to ‘dewater’ the…