Join Us for Earth Month!
April 1, 2024
Earth Month is filled with opportunities to get out and enjoy the great outdoors, connect with environmental groups at tabling events and volunteer to make the world a better place. There are festivals across the state, reminding us that we only...
April 2024: the Sylvanian
March 31, 2024
Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian! Please read our April 2024 issue!
Get to Know... The Northeastern Group
March 29, 2024
Good news for the 1,100 Sierra Club members in northeastern Pennsylvania (Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Pike, Wayne, Wyoming, Bradford, Luzerne and Sullivan counties): a handful of local active members has taken on the task of re-establishing what was...
Increasing Clean Energy Targets
March 27, 2024
In 2004, then-Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS) Act into law, which required the state’s utilities and electricity suppliers to purchase a minimum amount of electricity from renewable or...
The 2023-2024 Annual Huplits Grant Awards
March 27, 2024
The Allegheny Group Sierra Club’s Huplits Grant Committee awarded about $140,000 in grants between July 2023 and January 2024. The funds for the grants originate from the Huplits Foundation Trust, a family charitable trust established in 1990. The...
Sierra Club: Community Consultation is Critical to Success of DOE Industrial Decarbonization Grants
March 25, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the allocation of $6.3 billion in industrial decarbonization grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a significant step toward transforming...
Job Posting: Field Organizer
March 22, 2024
We're hiring two Field Organizers to engage volunteers and partners through online and offline tactics in support of 100% clean energy, climate justice, and other movement and coalition priorities in Pennsylvania. One will be based in Western...
NEPADOC: Our First Film Screening
March 17, 2024
The North Central Pennsylvania Group was interested in having a film festival or showing films as a fundraiser. In the summer of 2023, Dr. David Heineman from Bloomsburg University released his full-length documentary NEPADOC, a non-verbal...
Sierra Club PA Applauds Gov. Shapiro’s Proposal to Increase Clean Energy Targets
March 13, 2024
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Today, Governor Josh Shapiro announced the Pennsylvania Reliable Energy Sustainability Standard (PRESS), his proposal to update the 2004 Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS). Forward looking at the time of its adoption,...
March 2024: the Sylvanian
March 3, 2024
Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian! Please read our March 2024 issue!