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...
Strategic Planning Session - Let's Plan Sierra Club Tennessee's Next Era
January 15, 2025
Strategic and Annual Planning Session
We Belong to the Night: Manage Outdoor Lighting to Support Wildlife and Conserve Energy!
January 15, 2025
Ideas to manage light pollution
2025 Start of Session Letter to State Legislators
January 7, 2025
On January 8, 2025, our Tennessee Chapter distributed the Sierra Club Calendar to the offices of all State Representatives and Senators. The calendar was accompanied by a letter emphasizing two of the chapter's top legislative priorities for the...
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!
False Claim #2 About Solar Energy
November 20, 2024
False Claim #2: Toxic heavy metals, such as lead and cadmium, leach out from solar panels and pose a threat to human health.
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!
FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT SOLAR ENERGY by Energy Committee
October 8, 2024
This is the first blog/article in a series taken from the Columbia Law School report “Rebutting 33 False Claims about Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles.“ The electromagnetic fields generated at a solar farm are similar in strength and frequency to...
