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Washington, DC – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration announced its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal...

We are happy to announce that we are once again accepting proposals for the 2026 Huplits Grant Awards. The Sierra Club Allegheny Group is a beneficiary of the Huplits Trust and conducts a grant program each year to help further the mission of the...

Over the past year, the Outdoors for All campaign has helped anchor the Club’s work in pushing back against Executive Order: 14253 and Interior Order: 3431: "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History " (aka, whitewashing of history at national...

Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian! Please read our February 2026 issue!

Philadelphia, Pa. - This week, the National Park Service removed an exhibit from Independence National Historical Park examining the legacy of slavery at the site. The move is the latest action by the Trump Administration to whitewash American...

Between 80,000 and 200,000 retired coal mines blight the landscape in the United States creating significant and unaddressed environmental damage. Thanks to a December decision by Rush Township in Centre County, Black Moshannon Solar, a 252 MW solar...

The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), per their website and authorizing legislation from 1970 “is to protect human health and the environment.” The website goes on to say the “EPA works to ensure that: Americans have clean air,...

In October 2025, the Sierra Club Northeastern Pennsylvania Group convened a community discussion entitled “Can We Really Talk?”. The discussion brought together educators, advocates, and local government leaders to examine how current federal...

A few months ago a fellow member of our local Sierra Club Group sent me a short piece from the Guardian which highlighted the book, We are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate by Michael Grunwald. It is a book that...

My journey in composting began in the 1980’s when I was living in a rowhouse. I learned from a neighbor about the ecological value of composting - that in the oxygen poor environment of the landfill, the microorganisms breaking down the organic...