By Jim Kaff Locals know Tyler State Park as a great state park right here in Bucks County.  For those of us that live nearby it is an unbelievable asset.  A huge state park, 1,700 acres, with a river for fishing and boating and 25 miles...

By Jean MacFarlane, Marion Biddle & Meenal Raval -- Two women coursed thru the 2019 Philly Auto Show in search of all-electric cars, fully aware of the climate crisis and the need to reduce our emissions....

By Sondra Moore. There is a lot of bad news for anyone concerned with environmental issues. It’s easy to see how one could feel hopeless about what is happening. From the threat of a blue ocean event to the deforestation of Borneo to the...

By Sharon Furlong. Elcon Recycling Services, LLC has proposed building a plant that boils imported hazardous liquids containing between 300 and 590 types of toxins in order to oxidize the products. This proposed project in Falls Township, Bucks...

As we have seen, the youth-led Sunrise Movement, with support from NY’s Rep-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is pushing the Democratic Party to take a powerful stand on climate change and convene a Select Committee for a Green New Deal as soon as...

Life is full of choices but there are always tradeoffs. Green choices are even harder. Yet, there is a little known program knows as the PECO Smart Energy Program that lets you save 7% on your electricity bill and still go green.

By Pat Beaudet On September 29, 2018, thirty Sierra Club members and friends set off from the Walnut Street dock in Philadelphia for a one-hour tour of the 8-mile stretch of the Schuylkill River, from the Fairmount Dam to the Delaware River...

The Sierra Club Southeastern PA Group (SPG) Executive Committee consists of 11 members, each serving 2 year terms. 5 seats are expiring at the end of 2018. You can find info about the current ExCom members on the About Us  page. Review the...

The City of Philadelphia recently published a strategic transportation plan. It’s called Connect. Upon reviewing it , we found that it did not address decreasing the use of private vehicles, especially those with internal combustion engines.

By Ken Hemphill In her book "The Shock Doctrine," Naomi Klein describes how governments and large corporations have made frequent use of what she calls “disaster capitalism” in which weather catastrophes and economic dislocations are exploited to...