Blog posts from around the country
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
On July 21, Amanda Hackney of Black Cat GIS and Biological Services, will explain the goals and activities of SPLASh, Stopping Plastics and Litter Along Shorelines...
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Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Houston starts programs to improve the quality and quantity of recyclables collected at the curbside. A regional coalition of groups is SPLASh (Stopping Plastics and Litter Along Shorelines)....
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Loxahatchee Group / Florida Chapter / Florida
Learn the best ways to invest in energy efficiency in Florida.
Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
Coal companies describe longwall mining as “planned subsistence,” but community activists describe it as “planned destruction.”
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Sometimes we overlook the natural riches that are right here in our own back yard. Because they have become familiar to us, we sometimes forget that they are also worthy of notice by a much wider audience....
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San Francisco Bay Chapter
Part of the Sierra Club's mission to "preserve and protect" wild places also involves looking at how we can safeguard natural open space in urban areas. The Northern Alameda County Group opposes the proposal by the City of Oakland to remove a…
Lone Star Chapter
The TCEQ was court ordered to hand over thousands of pages of documents to Sierra Club that they've been withholding from the public regarding their changes in rulemaking for ethylene oxide emissions, a super carcinogen. Rather than complying and…
Toiyabe Chapter
By now most in this region have heard of the proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in north-central Nevada. This has triggered a flurry of articles by the news media, the mining industry, and of course conservation organizations. The chapter is…