Blog posts from around the country

San Francisco Bay Chapter
Last month, the San Francisco Bay, Loma Prieta, and Redwood chapters of the Sierra Club joined together to present a three-day webinar series: Why We Need Nature-Based Adaptation to Sea Level Rise. Decision-makers, their staff, and the public…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Washington, DC -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled that private companies can take state land for new fracked gas pipelines, likely speeding the construction of the controversial PennEast pipeline project.
Oregon Chapter
Despite a united effort by environmental and good governance advocates, the Oregon Legislature wrapped up the 2021 session without taking action to curb the unethical behavior of the Oregon Forest Resources Institute (OFRI). House Bill 2357, which…
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Join us on Tuesday, July 13th at 6pm for an interactive Film and Story of the Wood River Coal Power Plant This event will present the twenty minute documentary "Wood River Station", produced and presented by John Woodall, recent graduate of…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
The Sierra Club salutes the leadership demonstrated by Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia on June 17th, 2021, when he led a large majority of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) in deferring for four months its…
Chicago Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Welcome to “Understanding Chicago’s Water,” a monthly blog from the Sierra Club Chicago Water Team.
Loma Prieta Chapter
For more than a year, the Morgan Hill Youth Climate Action Team (MHYCAT) has pressured the City Council to initiate a Climate Action Plan (CAP). Without the greenhouse gas reduction targets contained in such a plan, Morgan H
Pennsylvania Chapter
In honor of Juneteenth 2021, which has special significance as the first year that Juneteenth has been designated as a federal holiday, the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter has made several donations on the Group level to organizations around the…
Pennsylvania Chapter
David Sublette, a long-time Sierra Club member in Erie, PA, led an effort last summer to make sure Monarch butterflies migrating through Erie knew they were welcome. With help from a Huplits Wildlife Grant, a section of McClelland Park has been…
Pennsylvania Chapter
A group of volunteers from Sierra Club’s Southeastern PA Group has commissioned an exploratory mapping of gas leaks in Philadelphia. They have connected with Gas Safety USA for this mapping, the same people who mapped gas leaks in Boston a few years…