Blog posts from around the country
New Jersey Chapter
There are many serious downsides of artificial turf in the areas of health, safety, and the environment, suggesting that this product, rather than being an asset, is an overall liability to us and our communities.
New Jersey Chapter
The environmental movement received many setbacks last year, such as rollbacks in environmental protection policy and threats to prior climate gains, but we can reassert momentum by expanding our base to include both populists (workaday p
New Jersey Chapter
Industrial toxins are often disproportionately concentrated in underserved communities. To protect these communities from having to shoulder even more industrial activity, New Jersey adopted the Environmental Justice (EJ) Law in 2020 and adopted an…
New Jersey Chapter
In the PJM interconnection area, hundreds of millions of square feet of data centers are proposed, built, or under construction, requiring 67 gigawatts (GW) of power, according to an August 2025 report. It is estimated that about 38% of PJM’s…
New Jersey Chapter
For centuries, applied science has been busy creating new products to solve problems and make life easier for modern humans. Unfortunately, in this century many products were made of chemicals now referred to as “forever chemicals,” or per- and poly…
Pennsylvania Chapter
Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian! Please read our March 2026 issue!
New Jersey Chapter
We use the word volunteer often in the Sierra Club—for good reason. Page 12 of this newsletter features a box titled “New Jersey Chapter Leadership.” Did you know that everyone listed there, except the four people listed in the blue-shaded…
New Jersey Chapter
There has been a fresh breeze blowing. In recent months, there have been 5 court rulings against Trump administration attempts to shut down the offshore wind industry. Work has now been allowed to proceed on Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind off New York…