Blog posts from around the country

The Sierra Club’s core mission is intertwined with the spirit of Public Lands Day. According to the National Parks Service, “Public Lands Day was established in 1994 and held annually on the fourth Saturday in September. National Public Lands Day is…

Lake Mead keeps dropping. Yet developers are leading the charge to sell off 42,000 acres of public lands in Las Vegas that would be satiated with new water pipelines connected to the Colorado River. The Toiyabe Chapter's Southern Nevada Group has…

The Vermont Sierra Club is excited to be hosting these upcoming Drive Electric Week Events in South Burlington and

Illinois became the first Midwest state to adopt a law that sets a roadmap to ban coal in the state, eliminate other fossil-fuel sources of electricity and provide only "clean energy," including nuclear.

Jobs, justice, and climate are inextricably linked. Illinois has passed tangible policy solutions that could be a model across the country.

You’ve probably heard the claim before that a 100% clean energy economy cannot happen because renewable energy is unreliable. “The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine,” say some people, so we will always need fossil fuels in…

In an opinion piece in the Press of Atlantic City, Gina Carola, chair of the Sierra Club West Jersey Group and Chapter conservation co-chair, discusses New Jersey's continued reliance on burning coal for electricity.

On September 5, 2021, Leo Alton Reitan died. Most people have not heard of Leo, but he did more with his individual work ethic and his money, which he used to do the most for conservation, than scores of people do during their lives. Leo was not a…

On September 5, 2021, Leo Alton Reitan died. Most people have not heard of Leo, but he did more with his individual work ethic and his money, which he used to do the most for conservation, than scores of people do during their lives.... (Read more)