Jersey Sierran Index

But, we must ask, are you a heavy hitter? Are you in a financial position to help us in a very special way? For purposes of this communication, we define a heavy hitter as someone who can comfortably make a donation of four figures or more to the NJ...

The Sierra Club, in conjunction with three other leading environmental, clean energy and climate organizations (League of Conservation Voters [LCV] Action Fund, the NRDC Action Fund, and Clean Energy for American Action [CE4A Action]), has endorsed...

This fall, the Club will once again exhibit at the annual NJ School Boards Association Workshop in Atlantic City. We’ll be there for two days of the event, October 22 and 23.

“I just want to say one word to you… Plastics.” This advice for Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” presaged a bright future for plastics. While they have come to serve a panoply of seemingly indispensable functions, their...

To help address the serious lack of waste management regulation, government leaders should adopt Skip the Stuff laws—removing single-use plastic items from delivery orders—and consider expanding current EPR legislation to reduce plastics waste, too.

On a mid-July Saturday, Sierra Club offered hikers a good walk on an almost undiscovered trail: the Radio Beacon Trail of the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, a well-hidden gem at the southeast corner of the tract, near Allentown.

The Supreme Court has made another radical departure from well-established law in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron deference doctrine, which required courts to defer to government...

By fits and starts, wind turbine development is making progress in New Jersey. In early July, the Department of the Interior announced its approval of the 2.8 gigawatt (GW) Atlantic Shores South offshore wind project, which will create enough energy...

In July, the NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club urged the US Coast Guard not to approve the NJ Turnpike Authority’s plans to replace the Casciano Bridge across Newark Bay between Newark and Bayonne and double the number of lanes from four to eight.

In 1986, the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) became law, giving everyone the right to know what chemicals are floating around in the air of our communities.