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Fracking and its destruction looks a lot like an ocean of harm drowning Pennsylvania. Wave after wave hits communities wherever drilling, fracking and related operations occur. The infrastructure that enables gas development brings its own damage,...

The Allegheny Group of the Sierra Club has the responsibility each year of providing grant awards from the Huplits Endowment.  The Huplits Wildlife Grants Committee includes four members from the Allegheny Group and three people from outside the...

Well, that was fun! Our eight new conservation teams each hosted a one-hour webinar in June and July. We all learned something, including the need to make sure at least two people are Zoom-hosts in case one of the hosts loses power in a summer storm...

Rebecca Deegan has joined Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter as the new Outdoors for All Organizer in Philadelphia. A Philly resident for three years, Rebecca is coming to us from the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, where her work...

From delving into priority environmental legislation in Pennsylvania to exploring the policy and technology critical to Icelandic renewable energy, I was fortunate enough to have several experiences formative to my growth as an environmental...

Poets like to name the known world. Lists of words become free-form poems that make the reader sit up and reach, not just for the dictionary, but in the case of nature writers, for the encyclopedias of plants and animals. As a poet and a nature...

Bright Green Future is the name of a new book by Gregory Schwartz, a professor of Environmental Science, and writer Trevor Decker Cohen. The book’s subtitle, “How everyday heroes are reimagining the way we feed, power, and build our world” well...

He carries his canoe down the trail to the river. It is upside down and balanced with the center thwart on his shoulders. When he reaches the water, he wades in and with a practiced motion gracefully rolls the boat down to the surface. He feels the...

Harrisburg, PA -- On Tuesday, September 14th, national and Pennsylvania-based environmental groups sent petitions urging the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) to adopt full-cost bonding for conventional and unconventional oil and gas...

On Wednesday, September 1st, Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3-2 to approve a regulation that will put the first ever declining limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution from Pennsylvania power plants and allow the...