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Protect Citizens' Ability To Protect Their Health And Communities
April 1, 2026
Tennessee Sierra Club: Protect Citizens' Ability To Protect Their Health And Communities Nashville, TN - This week, the Tennessee Senate will hear SB1958, which, if passed, would limit the ability of citizens and organizations to use their...
Conservation Day on the Hill 2026: A Day Worth Celebrating
March 2, 2026
We just wrapped one of the best Conservation Day on the Hill events we've had, and it's hard not to still feel the buzz from an exciting day at the Capitol.Sixty-three volunteers came to Nashville, walked the halls of the Cordell Hull Building and...
Middle Tennessee's Power Outages Show We're Investing in the Wrong Infrastructure
February 5, 2026
When the service mast was pulled off my house during Winter Storm Fern, it was a small-scale example of what happened across Middle Tennessee. My East Nashville neighborhood went dark Sunday morning, and as I share this almost two weeks later, some...
Quicker Than a Commercial Break, Cheatham County Takes Control of Future Landfills
October 28, 2025
Cheatham County Passes Jackson Law, learn how your city or county can as well
Why are we promoting more landfills at the Tennessee Sustainability Conference?
August 26, 2025
Last week, I attended the Tennessee Sustainability Conference in Gatlinburg. I was excited to learn about emerging technologies and ways to build a circular economy. Instead, I found a panel on landfill siting. And from the moment the conference...
What Would It Mean to Rescind the Roadless Rule?
August 25, 2025
For more information about the Roadless Rule, we are sharing the recent article by Tennessee Legal and Water Committee's Chair Axel Ringe (From August '25 E-News).And we also invite you to take action and comment to the US Forest Service...
Facing the Climate Emergency- Meet the Author July 23 6:30 cst
July 16, 2025
Join the Tennessee Chapter of Sierra Club for a Meet the Author event with Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon, author of "Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth."
Memphis Under Pressure: Where AI, Energy, and Clean Air Collide 7/1 Webinar
June 25, 2025
Tennessee Chapter discusses xAI and TVA's Allen Plant
False Claim #2 About Solar Energy
November 20, 2024
False Claim #2: Toxic heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium, leach out from solar panels and pose a threat to human health.
FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT SOLAR ENERGY by Energy Committee
October 8, 2024
This is the first blog/article in a series taken from the Columbia Law School report “Rebutting 33 False Claims about Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles.“ The electromagnetic fields generated at a solar farm are similar in strength and frequency to...