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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...

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...