Blog posts from around the country

Southeast Iowa Sierra Club / Iowa Chapter / Fairfield Iowa
The Iowa Sierra Club just published its October newsletter, with an excellent article on the Jordan Aquifer, which provides drinking water for Fairfield and much of our area.
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
The City of Ojai voted to phase out gas in new buildings on Tuesday, Oct. 27, making it the first city in Ventura County to embrace an all-electric future.
Wisconsin Chapter
The Halloween season is fast approaching, and the scariest thing we see is the I-94 expansion, a project that would expand I-94 from three to four lanes west of Milwaukee.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
There’s something very wrong in the state parks system that at least three state parks directors and four governors have not solved. Make that five governors, counting Gavin Newsom. The problem is 3,100 acres of high-quality blue oak woodland,…
Maine Chapter
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York River Group of the Virginia Sierra Club / Virginia Chapter / Virginia
Plastics!  They are everywhere, they are getting worse, and the problem isn’t going away… (as if there isn’t enough else in the world to be concerned about)!  On October 21, 2020, Rob Hale, Professor in the Department of Aquatic Health
North Carolina Chapter
We want to make sure everyone benefits from our push to make North Carolina the "Green Roads State" - and not just by enjoying cleaner air. As costs drop and local governments commit to renewable energy targets, a growing number of our cities and…
Lone Star Chapter
Our conservation director and interim director Cyrus Reed will be participating on a panel at the Texas Energy Summit on November 10, titled “Policies to Promote Smart, Healthy, Resilient, Emission Free Buildings.” We can make all new buildings…
Lone Star Chapter
Over the last six months, there has been unprecedented attention to the equally unprecedented amount of flaring, venting, and fugitive emissions of methane- the main component of gas. It is not only a severe threat to public health, it is also…
Lone Star Chapter
It might go without saying that Sierra Club and Governor Greg Abbott rarely see eye-to-eye on political and environmental issues. In the past, we both have been supportive of the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan and the benefits of wind power, though…