Blog posts from around the country
North Star Chapter
Dakota County has decided to leave the CTIB (County Transit Improvement Board). The CTIB allegedly retaliated by refusing to fill a $12 million gap from the failed bonding bill with CTIB funds; this puts the Orange Line in jeopardy as the bulk of…
Lone Star Chapter
A new environmental challenge heating up over the last decade is the rapid decline of honeybees. Colony Collapse Disorder - or CCD - is being reported worldwide. The key suspect is a new group of pesticides – nicotine-like substances called “…
Grand Canyon Chapter
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission seems more interested in playing politics than in considering legitimate concerns facing wildlife and habitat. Its statement about uranium mining being a “non-existent threat” to condors is just wrong.
Santa Lucia Chapter
The current crisis in the California Coastal Commission was supposed to have been fixed 25 years ago
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Summer heat got you down? NC has so many wonderful mountains and waterfalls and it's usually cooler there! Join a Sierra Club outing or get outside on your own soon.
Wisconsin Chapter
A transit project that is moving forward in Milwaukee is an example of the decisions we should make statewide to address the problems within the state transportation fund.
Alabama Chapter
Comments from the Chair, Robert W. Hastings; Why We Must Stand with Uniontown in the Fight for Health & Justice; SAVE THE DATE NOW FOR OCT. 28 – 30!; State Parks Needs Our Help; Fish Kill at Gorgas and Sewer Spill at Northport: Citizens Demand…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for August 2016. Click the title to see the news this month.
North Star Chapter
This July, Xcel Energy held a series of public hearings within its service territory in order to hear what its customers think of its request to increase the rate that people must pay to purchase energy. Xcel is asking the Public Utilities…