Blog posts from around the country

If you’re looking to become an outings leader for our chapter, or just want to beef up your wilderness safety and survival skills, then this training is for you! This course satisfies first-aid requirements for most Bay Chapter outing leaders, but…

Mining Hot Creek, 395 Cleanup, LADWP Pumping Deeper, Every Last Drop, and Pine Creek Hydro-Electric Project

Estimates are that implementing the Nutrient Reduction Strategy will cost $5 billion. Finding money to pay for it has been a challenge. The Sierra Club is suggesting a Nutrient Management Strategy fee which would be paid for by the integrators -…

Who carries out North Carolina's energy policies, and how will they enact the new law governing carbon emissions and electric rate-setting? Learn more about the N.C. Utilities Commission, and how its job affects our environment - and how the N.C.…

We, the Napa Group of the Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club have been following the process of the GSPAC and attempted to contribute to the discussion. We feel that the plan as drafted follows the state guidelines, but misses the opportunity to…

Utility solar continuing to grow nationwide. This is a huge facility, on 13,000 acres.

Update May 2022: NoProp22MA is now Massachusetts is Not for Sale. By Andrew Hunter

Harrisburg, PA -- Today, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board voted to move forward petitions filed by the Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, Earthworks, Mountain Watershed Association, PennFuture, and Protect Penn-Trafford that would work to…

Sierra Club Illinois publicly called on the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to deny an operating permit to Canada-based company EmberClear, who is developing the [Lincoln Land gas plant].

Environmental advocates plan to join local residents at a permit hearing on November 17, citing EmberClear’s proposed gas plant as contradictory to Illinois’ climate progress.