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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...

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...