Blog posts from around the country

Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
Blog post by Elizabeth Scrafford, Sierra Club Organizing Manager about the urgent need to pass climate legislation.
North Carolina Chapter
Gov. Roy Cooper issued an executive order committing North Carolina to support offshore wind development goals of 2.8 gigawatts by 2030 and 8.0 gigawatts by 2040. The targets "are a clear message to clean energy investors that North Carolina will…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
In Marin County, an opportunity for reparations is playing out in Golden Gate Village, the only majority-Black public housing in the county. A green preservation-based plan for renovation of all 300 units was developed by the Golden Gate Village…
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
The Trust for Public Lands Survey gave the county a poor rating. Their report explains that while doing better than the survey indicates, more work and funding is needed.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Single-family zoning is something that doesn’t even exist in most other countries, yet it constitutes the majority of residentially zoned land in every state of the union and 70 percent of all residential zoning in America. It started in Berkeley,…
Angeles Chapter
Toxic Communities Recap and What’s Ahead! The Angeles Chapter staff hosted our second environmental social justice (ESJ) book club last week Wednesday, June 2nd. For this meeting, we chose Dorceta Taylor's Toxic Communities.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Building decarbonization has become one of the Sierra Club's priority campaigns here in the Bay Area and nation-wide. It's a hugely important issue area with major implications for public health and the climate, but the terms "building…
Kentucky Chapter
Book Review: Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents a Must Read By Ray Barry
Kentucky Chapter
An Endocrine Disrupter Cocktail and a Side of Nanoparticles: Are Plastics Harming Our Health? by Judith Humble
Kentucky Chapter
LG&E-KU Settles with Intervenors on Utility Rates Drew Foley, Kentucky Chapter Chair: