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By Fawn Contreras in collaboration with other members of the PA Chapter Zero Waste Team This article is one in a series by the PA Chapter Conservation Teams reviewing the 2021 PA Climate Action Plan. Image: Cover of the 2021...

by a collaborative effort of the PA Chapter Food & Ag Team This article is one in a series by the PA Chapter Conservation Teams reviewing the 2021 PA Climate Action Plan. Image from the 2020 GHG Inventory Report ...

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...

The Pennsylvania Chapter is recruiting for a volunteer Chapter Political Compliance Officer to work with our Political Committee and our Chapter leaders to ensure our volunteers and staff follow all applicable state and federal election laws,...

It's that time of the year again! The Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter is made up of over 100,000 members and supporters, all supported by by a group of volunteer leaders on the Chapter's Executive Committee. These leaders come from all over the...

Welcome to the online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter! Read the newsletter here.

It’s been a fairly quiet summer with the legislature in recess but they are returning next week. The House will actually be returning a week early (9/20) to try and find a way to overturn the Governor’s masks in schools mandate. The legislature will...

Philadelphia’s single-use plastic bag ban is on its way to being enforced. The bill, said to have gone into effect in July 2021, will currently not be enforced until April 2022. Wanting to push for reusable bags and minimize the devastation single-...

It should not be scary to use tap water to make your morning coffee – or to microwave a bag of popcorn- or to put on some makeup. Yet, we are exposed to PFAS chemicals in many of our everyday activities. PFAS are unhealthy chemicals that have been...

Green space is not easy to come by in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh, a long-term home of industry and mining, so the 150-acre Churchill Valley Greenway is regarded by many as a treasure. Originally a golf course, it was bought at sheriff’s sale...