Blog posts from around the country

Lone Star Chapter
This week, Texas residents, community leaders and environmental groups took to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in Austin to stand for the communities of the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi who are targets for liquified…
Georgia Chapter
On the last day of Georgia's 2019 Energy Plan Hearing at the Georgia Public Service Commission, more than 100 residents from across Georgia came out to #SpeakTruth2GAPower and call for clean affordable energy to address our global climate crisis.
Toiyabe Chapter
Pumped storage projects have been proposed in the Eastern Sierra. They're helpful for renewable energy, but they can conflict with wilderness designations and sensitive wildlife habitat. Sierra Club is working to find the best path forward without…
Georgia Chapter
On Thursday, May 30, the Sierra Club Military Outdoors and Georgia Chapter gathered at Mulberry Gap Mountain Bike Get-a-way for our 2019 Outings Leader Training. It was the first SCMO leadership training course in the Southeast since 2017 and the…
North Carolina Chapter
The N.C. Senate today passed a bill that would block wind energy development - and the economic boost it provides - across much of North Carolina for three years.
North Carolina Chapter
Citing "significant adverse impacts" on fish habitats, fisheries, marine food webs and North Carolina's coastal economy, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) today rebuffed a company's plan to conduct seismic blasting off the coast.
Four Lakes Group / Wisconsin Chapter / Wisconsin
Olbrich Botanical Gardens is hosting classes and workshops to celebrate Pollinator Week from June 17-23! Pollinator Week is an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and beetles.
North Star Chapter
This week, we celebrated big news in the fight to Stop Line 3: On Monday, the courts denied Enbridge's Environmental Impact Statement for its failure to address the impact of spills on Lake Superior. We caught up with Scott Russell, this month's…
Lone Star Chapter
Vulcan 3009 Quarry wants to be San Antonio's new neighbor - and they're bringing their carcinogenic dust with them.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen It was nice to roll out of bed knowing that I was only 15 minutes away from the outing I was leading. I was selfish and had scheduled the June Houston Sierra Club outing at East End Park, a wonderful almost 160-acre park on the…