Blog posts from around the country
Lone Star Chapter
This week concludes my 10-week stint as the Lone Star Chapter’s Environmental Communications Intern. There has been a lot of laughs, a few tears, and a whole lot of learning along the way, and it has been worth every minute of it.
Coastal Bend Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The members of the Sierra Club Coastal Bend Group strongly oppose the stockpiling of any nuclear waste in Texas, even on a temporary basis, and we oppose the permit application made by Waste Control Specialists to stockpile nuclear waste from other…
Coastal Bend Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
One of the proposed Petro Waste facilities near Nordheim (population 307) in DeWitt County would be approximately 200 acres in size (half the size of the Nordheim town site), and its boundary would be less than one-half mile from the public school…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Jack Bowers was a man who was committed to getting kids outdoors. No volunteer for the local chapter of the Sierra Club’s Inspiring Connections Outdoors (ICO) program went on more trips or connected with more students than Jack. As fellow ICO…
Florida Chapter
Here's the full agenda for Big Sugar Summit 2 in West Palm Beach on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
Lone Star Chapter
You might have heard about America’s domination in the Summer Olympics this past week, but did you hear about another major win for the American people? Well if not here it is: on July 29 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the…
Florida Chapter
Florida Senate President-designate Joe Negron announced a plan to buy 60,000 acres of sugar land in the Everglades Agricultural Area to store water and send it south.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
A critical phase in stopping Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed giant tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has begun. The two tunnels, measuring about four-stories in diameter, are proposed to move huge quantities of water from northern…