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Interested in joining our team? We're hiring a Senior Program Coordinator to work with Philadelphia Climate Works to develop and advocate for climate justice policies that reflect the shared goals of environmental justice communities, labor...

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced that it will now require all landfills to test their leachate, or liquid runoff, for radioactive contamination like radium, which is commonly found in solid fracking waste...

No, RGGI Did NOT Put an End to the Cheswick Generating Station but RGGI could help the community if we do it right

Washington, DC -- Today, the Supreme Court ruled that private companies can take state land for new fracked gas pipelines, likely speeding the construction of the controversial PennEast pipeline project.

In honor of Juneteenth 2021, which has special significance as the first year that Juneteenth has been designated as a federal holiday, the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter has made several donations on the Group level to organizations around the...

David Sublette, a long-time Sierra Club member in Erie, PA, led an effort last summer to make sure Monarch butterflies migrating through Erie knew they were welcome. With help from a Huplits Wildlife Grant, a section of McClelland Park has been...

A group of volunteers from Sierra Club’s Southeastern PA Group has commissioned an exploratory mapping of gas leaks in Philadelphia. They have connected with Gas Safety USA for this mapping, the same people who mapped gas leaks in Boston a few years...

Between 2011 and 2018, the greater Williamsport area was transformed from a small city surrounded by bucolic countryside into a gritty industrial park consisting of parking lot-sized well pads cleared of all trees, drilling rigs towering over...

There had been a service station with gas pumps there for as long as I can remember, right on the corner just past the modest little strip mall and fast food joint. As the only gas on the west side of State Route 320 for many miles, that part of...

“When you’re living among the trash, you begin to feel like trash yourself.” So said Zulene Mayfield about her neighborhood close to the Covanta Resource Recovery Facility, which is a waste incinerator, also called “trash to steam,’ in Chester, PA...