Blog posts from around the country
Southeastern Pennsylvania Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Philadelphia Pennsylvania
By Jim Wylie
With momentum building in southeastern Pennsylvania to set renewable energy goals, draft transition plans and take meaningful action, the West Chester Area Council Of Governments (WCA COG) has embarked on a regional planning effort that…
Middle Tennessee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
What is the Green New Deal? What's at stake and who will it help? What could it mean for Nashville and Middle Tennessee?
Suwannee St. Johns Group / Florida Chapter / Florida
3 PROTESTS, 1 MESSAGE TO GOVERNOR DESANTIS: Veto disastrous Toll Roads and Growth Management bills for the sake of working Floridians, water quality, and our natural environment
Maryland Chapter
Sierra Club’s Maryland Chapter, Beyond Dirty Fuels, and Beyond Coal campaigns worked with partners to defeat a proposed fracked gas compressor station, and likely took down a proposed fracked gas power plant along with it. Dominion officially walked…
District of Columbia Chapter
The Sierra Club wrote to DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson to express opposition to weakening DC's Freedom of Information Act by slipping provisions into the budget that would make major changes to the law.
Florida Chapter
Sierra Club Florida actively opposed all legislation seeking to preempt local regulation of plastic straws, citing concerns that many marine animals mistake these and other plastic items for food.
Middle Tennessee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
Nashville Vice Mayor Jim Shulman - What can the Council and Individuals do together to Improve our Environment.
District of Columbia Chapter
The Sierra Club wrote DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and other Councilmembers requesting that the DC Council provide funding to implement the Lead Pipe Replacement and Disclosure Act.
Massachusetts Chapter
I came into the Sierra Club with minimal background in the environment, but it has now become a focal point of interest. Interning at the Sierra Club broadened my scope of the environment, the political arena, and the network in which change takes…