Blog posts from around the country

New Jersey Chapter
The gas tax in New Jersey is increasing by 9.3 cents per gallon on Thursday, October 1. This will bring the gas tax total in New Jersey to 50.7 cents. Diesel will also be taxed by 57.7 cents per gallon. This is because less gas was sold in New…
New Jersey Chapter
Today, Governor Murphy signed S2021 (Sarlo)/A4720 (Pintor Marin). The legislation changes increase the operational budget of the Department of Environmental Protection to $181,496,000, up from $159,496,000. It also restores money that was being…
New Jersey Chapter
On Thursday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with start a $52 million beach replenishment project in Long Branch, Monmouth Beach, and Sea Bright. The project will add 2.7 million cubic yards of new sand onto the beaches. The first phase which…
New Jersey Chapter
“There has been a major new development on the Gibbstown, NJ LNG port. Delaware River Partners, a subsidiary of New Fortress Energy LLC, has filed a Petition for a Declaratory Order with FERC for the Gibbstown LNG terminal. It was in the Federal…
Maryland Chapter
Janet Gingold (chair of Prince George’s Sierra Club, Outings Leader, and Maryland Master Naturalist) returned this month with another edition of her nature-outing-turned-virtual tour, this time of four parks along the Patuxent River watershed in…
Washington State Chapter
Utilities all across the state are currently prohibited from shutting off essential utility services due to non-payment, but this protection is scheduled to end on October 15th. Without a long-term plan in place to help people get back on their feet…
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Make your voice heard, demand protection for our communities and our ecosystem, and force polluters to clean up their mess responsibly.
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Racism Is Killing the Planet: The ideology of white supremacy leads the way toward disposable people and a disposable natural world
Tennessee Chapter
In the fall of 2018, Memphis received multiple proposals from energy consultants to leave TVA and potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars. Fast forward to April 2019 when Memphis utilities began taking this opportunity more seriously and…
Atlantic Chapter
As with many, I was a part of the silent majority– someone concerned about “the environment” and “pollution”.