Blog posts from around the country
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Finally! Ventura is updating its General Plan to include oil well setbacks from homes, prohibitions on oil trucking and flaring, and climate-friendly building code. Meanwhile, Exxon is trying to increase oil trucking in Santa Barbara. Crimson forced…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for August 2020. Click the title to see the news this month.
Angeles Chapter
Guest Commentary:
As former chair of the Huntington Beach Planning Commission, I presided over 40 hours of Poseidon’s hearings. I offer four reasons why the Regional Water Board should reject the project at Friday’s mee
Alabama Chapter
Alabama Power often claims to be helping communities across Alabama, but this narrative contradicts the company’s actions on pivotal issues that impact the health of Alabama communities.
Lone Star Chapter
Yesterday, Sierra Club hosted a virtual town hall to highlight and discuss a report that found that CPS Energy should propose a much stronger FlexSTEP program that helps San Antonio residents fight high bills and reduce dangerous pollution.
Massachusetts Chapter
On Friday, July 31st, the traditional last day of the legislative session, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at reducing our state’s carbon emissions. The bill would create carbon emissions targets for 2030 and 2040,…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
This is the moment for a new generation of Bay Chapter leaders to join those who have been doing so much good work for so long.
Lone Star Chapter
The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) released a modest proposal to revise the “Rule 32 Datasheet” to require oil and gas operators to provide more accurate information to the Commission when requesting authorization to flare and vent gas (methane).