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Greetings everyone. My name is Emily Abendroth, and I joined the Sierra Club in May 2022 as the new Senior Program Coordinator of Philly Climate Works (PCW). I’ve been living in the city of Philadelphia for the past twenty years and have spent much...

As most of you know, the Pennsylvania budget was finally passed late on July 7th, and the legislature is now recessed for the summer. Given the multi-billion dollar surplus, we had the rare opportunity to advocate for and secure significant...

Harrisburg, PA - Tuesday, House Bill 2644 became law as part of a budget deal Governor Wolf struck with the General Assembly. This bill eliminates the Environmental Quality Board’s (EQB) authority to set and adjust well bond amounts for conventional...

Nuclear Power under Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Plan - It Sticks Around

Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian!

Announcing the posting of Chapter Director for the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Sierra Club.

In June the Sierra Club of Pennsylvania’s Food & Agriculture Team hosted a webinar by Judy Wicks from All Together Now PA talking about Localization and Hemp: Strategies for the Climate Crises. Judy shared a lot of good info about the...

Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian!

The northeast corridor of the U.S. has the biggest concentration of trash incinerators in the country with the Covanta plant in Chester, PA being both the largest and the one with the fewest pollution controls, according to Mike Ewall, Director of...

In 2019, Pennsylvania established Juneteenth, the day marking the legal end of enslavement of Black people, as a state holiday. It is a day to celebrate and remember one of our difficult national histories that both honors evolution and rejects...