The Virginia Chapter newsletter, Virginia Sierran, is a 12-page periodical published quarterly. The newsletter covers environmental issues and campaigns important to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Included is a page devoted to grassroots activities (News from the Groups), and another page addressing conservation tips for individual members to incorporate in their daily lives (Love the Earth, Live the Simple Life) and more.
Melanie Roberts, Virginia Sierran Editor
If you want to contribute to this publication, articles, photos and other graphics are welcome. For content submission deadlines, suggested word counts and photo instructions, contact the editor at editorvirginiasierran@gmail.com.
Newsletters
| Newsletter | Headline | |
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| Spring 2026 | Sharon Shutler Appointed to Virginia Air Pollution Control Board | |
| Winter 2026 | Nurturing a Micro Rain Garden System at Home Alyse Cruickshank Rzodkiewicz | |
| Fall 2025 | As Every Chemistry Major Knows, Plastics Don’t BioDegrade, Nor Do They Fade Away... | |
| Summer 2025 | Big Tech Takes More Than It Gives: New Sierra Club Report Exposes the Cumulative Harms of Data Center Expansion in Virginia | |
| Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice Under the Current Administration: Progress or Challenges? | |
| Winter 2025 | A Tribute to President Jimmy Carter, the Nation’s First Climate-Conscious President | |
| Fall 2024 | Amazon claims to power all its operations with renewable energy. If only that were true | |
| Summer 2024 | Rooftop Solar is Under Attack Again | |
| Spring 2024 | Data center issues: power and water | |
| Winter 2024 | Gov. Younkin’s Nuclear Dream: A nightmare for Virginia’s coalfield communities (Spoiler alert: Maybe for you, too) | |
| Fall 2023 | The Virginia Environmental Justice Act—Three years out | |
| Summer 2023 | Mountain Valley Pipeline, the final injustice: An interview with Kirk Bowers | |
| Spring 2023 | Virginia Chapter practices Sierra Club Core Values |  |
| Winter 2023 | Virginia has a data center problem | |
| Fall 2022 | The Virginia Ripoff Project and Threats to Community Health | |
| Summer 2022 | Right here, right now and done right: Sierra Club gains in offshore wind | |
| Spring 2022 | Emerging from the dark: The future of fossil fuel buildout in Virginia | |
| Winter 2021-22 | The faces of victory and defeat: State citizen boards deny and issue MVP permits | |
| Fall 2021 | National parks, the Rural Crescent and Northern Virginia data center expansion | |
| Spring 2021 | Equitable Transit Moves People, Not Communities | |
| Winter 2020 | Mountain high, valley low: the roller coaster ride of the Mountain Valley Pipeline | |
| Fall 2020 | The intersectionality of racial justice and climate activism | |
| Summer 2020 | The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is CANCELLED! | |
| Spring 2020 | Art, activism, and the Supreme Court of the United States | |
| End of Year/Winter 2019 | 100% Clean Energy with New Fracked Gas Infrastructure? | |
| Fall 2019 | Opposition to Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipeline grows | |
| Summer 2019 | Day of action for a new economic climate | |
Spring 2019
| Pipeline diary: continuing opposition to the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines
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| Archived Newsletters | Links | |
| End of Year/Winter 2018 | Pipeline diary: Continuing opposition to the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines |  |
| Fall 2018 | Fracking in Virginia: FOIA Decision HB904 | |
| Summer 2018 | Destruction of Virginia's forests and lands | |
| Spring 2018 | The devastation of our forests has begun! | |
| End of Year/Winter 2017 | Sierra Club takes SCC to court over Atlantic Coast Pipeline | |
| Fall 2017 | 2017 Sierra Club Virginia Chapter candidate endorsements | |
| Summer 2017 | Trump abandons Paris Agreement for sake of fossil fuel supporters/Virginia is moving forward on climate | |
| Spring 2017 | Training the Resistance | |
| Winter 2017 | No Ordinary Election | |
| Fall 2016 | National Park Service celebrates a special birthday — its 100th anniversary | |
| Summer 2016 | Dominion drops offshore wind energy project | |
| Spring 2016 | No offshore drilling in the Atlantic | |
| Winter 2016 | Improving On Obama | |
| Fall 2015 | Energy Masters trained to help low-income residents control utility costs | |
| Summer 2015 | Resolved Against Offshore Drilling | |
| Spring 2015 | The People vs. Dominion | |
| Winter 2015 | Proposed Pipeline Concerns Justified | |
| Fall 2014 | The Emerging Risk of Fracking | |
| Summer 2014 | Sea Level in Coastal Virginia | |
| Spring 2014 | Building Climate Action Movement | |
| Winter 2014 | A New Day in Virginia | |
| Fall 2013 | Heating the home using Virginia Heatstore stystem | |
| Summer 2013 | Taking Action on Climate Change | |
| Spring 2013 | Sierra Club challenges Dominion’s Brunswick County natural gas power plant | |
| Winter 2013 | The Sad Saga of Uranium Mining | |
| Fall 2012 | Is offshore wind really in Virginia’s future? | |
| Special Election Edition 2012 | Barack Obama for President | |
| Summer 2012 | Tough Times for Wind Power | |
| Spring 2012 | It’s time for committed climate defenders to come to the planet's aid | |
| Winter 2012 | Unsustainable Me | |
| Fall 2011 | Big Victories for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal | |
| Summer 2011 | A Greener Virginia through Sierra Club Activism | |
| Spring 2011 | Working for Labor for Good Green Jobs | |
| Winter 2011 | Offshore wind picks up speed along the Atlantic | |
| Fall 2010 | McDonnell offers “Do Nothing Plan” to clean up the Bay | |
| Summer 2010 | Environmentalists challenge efforts to push through new mountaintop removal | |
| Spring 2010 | Clean Energy Patriots Needed for Earth Day Revolution | |
| Winter 2010 | Message to 2010 General Assembly | |
| Special Election Edition 2008 | Five Reasons We Back Obama | |