Blog posts from around the country
Allegheny Group, Pennsylvania Chapter / Pennsylvania Chapter / Pennsylvania
The Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club is proud to announce our endorsed candidates for the June 2, 2020, Primary Election.
Lone Star Chapter
The Trump administration’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed shrinking the popular Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) expansion proposal to allow more oil/gas drilling and fishing near sensitive…
Lone Star Chapter
Today, Sierra Club has agreed not to oppose a settlement to conclude the Xcel rate case currently pending at the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC). While Xcel operates as Southwestern Public Service (SPS) in the contiguous Texas and New…
Lone Star Chapter
Today, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) held an open meeting during the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter demanded that the oil and gas agency be stricter on pollution enforcement and be more transparent about their actions with the public.
North Carolina Chapter
As it does every year, spring brings beautiful new life to our environment. But this spring is like no other in the lives of most of us. And even as some make tentative, hopeful moves toward a return to pre-pandemic norms, we still have time to…
North Carolina Chapter
When the New Hanover County Commission voted without warning to invite a multinational company to build a cement plant on the banks of the Cape Fear River, residents were dismayed - then angry. With support from the N.C. Sierra Club, the community…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Today’s Slow Streets initiatives continue the momentum of programs like Better Market Street, and show that cities are no longer submitting to the rule of automobiles. Pedestrians and cyclists deserve safer cities both now and beyond our public…
Lone Star Chapter
On May 22 -23rd, the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas in partnership with the Gulf South for Green New Deal Initiative will host and broadcast the historical event: the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribunal for Human Rights. Due to COVID-19 concerns, this…
Lone Star Chapter
Over the past several weeks, a entity named TEERP Power Station LLC has secured various approvals through the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) towards a potential restart of the mothballed Gibbons Creek coal-fired power plant located…