Blog posts from around the country

Pennsylvania Chapter
Welcome to our third online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter!
Southeastern Pennsylvania Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Developed and produced by two local Sierra Club members and environmental activists, Meenal Raval and Tanya Seaman, Philly Talks Climate has just reached its thirteenth episode, How Active Transportation is a Climate Solution.
Maryland Chapter
On Wednesday, June 5th, the Maryland Board of Public Works voted 2-1 to greenlight moving forward on expansion of I-495 and I-270. Governor Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot cast their votes in favor of designating the I-495 and I-270…
Maryland Chapter
A bipartisan bill was just introduced in the Senate to allocate money to fight Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.  It's called   Ticks: Identify, Control, and Knockout (TICK) Act.  
Pennsylvania Chapter
Sierra Club has taken on the issue of plastics, particularly single-use plastics. So I have been trying to live without single use plastics and it seems I have to give up a lot more than just single use plastics since most packaging is, at least…
Pennsylvania Chapter
I just finished reading two novels (Barkskins by Annie Proulx and The Overstory by Richard Power) with no thought that the themes might connect. Both are about our profligate use of trees and destruction of forests. I was primed for the topic…
Toiyabe Chapter
The 2019 Nevada Legislative session is now over. The environmental champions you helped elect in 2018 made great strides enacting environmental policies across numerous fronts.
Florida Chapter
The Sierra Club's Stop the Burn Campaign, launched in 2015, is not a party to the Berman Law Group class action lawsuit.
Oregon Chapter
On May 6, Sierra Club received tangible proof that we are making significant progress in fighting the Jordan Cove Energy Project & the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline (JC/PC): the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied a crucial…
Southeastern Pennsylvania Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Philadelphia Pennsylvania
In June of 2017 when President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change grandstanding “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh not Paris”, the Mayors of both cities reactions clearly demonstrated they were more united…