Chapter E-Newsletters
August 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
August 1, 2025
What’s Inside: Tennessee's PFAS problem, why privatizing TVA is a terrible idea, why rescinding the Roadless Rule is also a terrible idea, xAI continues shady and destructive plans, and the featured species this month is Ironweed!
July 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
July 1, 2025
What’s Inside: xAI stockpiling massive equipment at vacant lot and NAACP plans to sue them over Clean Air Act violations, Trump's perplexing TVA firings, massive nationwide No Kings Protests, Drive Electric Tennessee Momentum Summit, plus learn...
June 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
June 1, 2025
What’s Inside: Congress considers cuts to safety net programs, Tell your rep to support the TN Waste to Jobs Act, XAI apparently preparing for a staggering amount of turbines, tips for creating a pollinator garden, and learn which wildflower...
May 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
May 1, 2025
What’s Inside: xAI operates in Memphis without permits and community pushes back, bipartisan lawmakers support scenic trail, fascinating indigenous history of Nashville, Sierra Club Board of Directors results, lots of May events, and fun facts about...
April 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
April 1, 2025
What’s Inside: Vote for Sierra Club Board of Directors! Report back about Conservation Day on the Hill, Chattanooga becomes America's first "National Park City," proposed legislation at odds with Gov. Lee's conservation goals, pro-pesticide...
March 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
March 1, 2025
What’s Inside: Concerns for statewide wetland protection, Trump's federal freeze and firings threaten Great Smoky National Park operations, PFAS in Tennessee's drinking water, 120 constituents lobby their legislators at Conservation Education Day,...
February 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
February 1, 2025
What’s Inside: TVA gets a 'D' from the Dirty Truth Report, Jeff Lyash plans to retire, Sierra Clubbers lobby to pass the Tennessee Waste to Jobs Act, then get outside for an Ice Hike at Pickett State Park. PFAS contaminates Tennessee landscapes, and...
January 2025 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
January 1, 2025
What’s Inside: Winter Retreat approaches, helpful info for taking advantage of electric vehicle (EV) rebates before time runs out, another successful invasive species clean-up at Dean's Woods (Knoxville), honoring the 16th anniversary of the...
December 2024 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
December 1, 2024
What’s Inside: TVA receives over 1,600 comments so far, extreme weather is pushing songbirds to "divorce," TVA donates big money to an obscure anti-regulation utility coalition, and the Gingko tree is this month's species!
November 2024 Newsletter & Digest - TN Chapter
November 1, 2024
What’s Inside: Action Alert - Tell TVA your thoughts on the IRP, Middle TN's trash crisis, Duck River is named one of nation's top 3 endangered rivers, UT professor sues TVA, Valley So Low book release, and facts about White-tailed deer!