Jul 2 Score One For the Trees Barbara Wilson had never been an activist until she learned that her power company was going to cut down her trees. But she and longtime Sierra Club activist Rufus Kinney pushed back and prevailed.
2008 May
May 27 Wild Sky Breaks the Mold For Western Wilderness Washington State's first new designated wilderness since 1984 breaks new ground in the West by including lower-elevations forests and formerly logged areas.
2008 April
Apr 16 Club Prods Otter Tail To Do What It Oughter The Sierra Club and tribal activists—with a surprise visit from "Mr. Otter"—held a press conference promoting clean energy at the annual shareholder meeting of the Otter Tail Corporation after the company proposed to expand one of its coal-burning power plants.
2008 March
Mar 20 Tribes, Club Win Temporary Protection for Sacred Peak A coalition of Native American tribes and the Sierra Club have won an emergency stay on exploratory uranium mining on New Mexico's Mt. Taylor, held sacred by many tribes.
2008 February
Feb 4 Reluctant Activist Sees Fruits of Her Labor In Drilling Moratorium Ellen Cavalli, a New Mexico Sierra Club volunteer, had never been on the activist frontlines until she learned that exploratory oil wells were planned on lands she loved. One woman's path to empowerment.
2008 January
Jan 17 Court Rules For Club, Says Michigan Factory Farms Violate Clean Water Act Vindicating Sierra Club efforts to clean up Michigan factory farms, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that the state's program for regulating large livestock and poultry factory farms violates the federal Clean Water Act.
Jan 9 Another One Bites the Dust Sierra Club legal and grassroots efforts to slow the coal rush pay off as Indeck Energy scraps plans for a proposed coal-fired power plant near Chicago.
2007 December
Dec 7 Sierra Club Shines, Reps Rock, Senate Blinks but Passes Energy Bill as 2007 Winds Down After the House of Representatives passes a historic energy bill, the Senate fails to muster the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster, and a watered-down bill ends up passing in both houses. But the Sierra Club is on the leading edge of a green tide washing across America. A look back at 2007.
2007 November
Nov 27 Tyson Taken to Task, Pulls Plug on Fowl Factory Small-town residents in Kentucky team up with the Sierra Club to put the kibosh on an unwanted already-under-construction Tyson chicken factory.
Nov 9 Power Shift 2007 In early November, more than 5,500 students from around the country converged on Washington, D.C., for the first-ever national youth climate summit.
2007 October
Oct 26 Spreading the Green Word in a Red Valley The Utah Valley Sierra Forum, an informal Sierra Club group, is re-energizing conservationists and facilitating conversations about the environment in Utah Valley, one of America's most conservative locales.
2007 September
Sep 27 Faces Against ASARCO The Sierra Club has taken of a bi-national coalition working to keep the American Smelting and Refining Company's polluting copper smelter in El Paso, Texas, shuttered.
Aug 8 Sierra Club Leader Elected VP of Sportsmen's League Sierra Club organizer Tim Guilfoile, an avid sportsman who has been working to forge partnerships between environmentalists and the hunter/angler community, was elected VP of the League of Kentucky Sportsmen in June.
Aug 7 Educator, Club Activists Help Motivate Alabama Youth A dedicated teacher who took a Living Streams workshop co-sponsored by the Sierra Club is now educating kids in the state's Black Belt about water quality and environmental protection.
2007 July
Jul 23 Sierra Club Action Confirms FEMA Inaction On Gulf Coast When refugees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were housed in FEMA trailers, many fell ill, and some even died. A Sierra Club campaign to test the trailers for toxics, publicize the results, and press for a congressional investigation now shows the agency dragged its feet, placing residents at risk.
2007 June
Jun 25 Music To Their Ears: A Lyrical Encounter When two student activists met rocker Ben Folds on the street in downtown Des Moines and handed him a flyer, little did they imagine he would set it to music that evening.
Jun 22 Coal Plant Near Everglades Denied The Florida Sierra Club's efforts were rewarded when the state Public Service Commission gave the thumbs-down to a massive new coal-burning plant.
Jun 6 Offshore Wind Deal for Delaware The Sierra Club's Delaware Chapter spearheaded a grassroots effort to promote a first-in-the-nation offshore wind deal.
2007 May
May 15 Club, Hunters Team Up for Wilderness In South Dakota, the Sierra Club is partnering with hunters and anglers to promote a new grasslands wilderness.
May 3 Ninth-Grader Gets the Lead Out Michelle Loke won a national community service award and has donated $5,000 to the Sierra Club to help get lead out of kids' toys and jewelry.
2007 April
Apr 30 Sierra Club Has Bright Idea in Madison In Madison, Wisconsin, the Sierra Club has come up with a first-in-the-nation energy-saving idea for the city's rental properties that now appears poised for passage.
Apr 25 Green Cruise Celebrates Clean, Healthy Transport The annual "Green Cruise" in suburban Detroit, conveived by a local Sierra Club volunteer, celebrates non-motorized transport in a fun, creative way.
2007 March
Mar 16 Recycling Activist Takes Fight to Legislature Minnesota environmental activist Paul Gardner parlays his recycling and organizing experience into a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
2007 February
Feb 26 Club Helps Secure Rail Transit for Atlanta BeltLine Sierra Club volunteers and staff promote a visionary 22-mile loop of transit, parks, trails, and new development along abandoned inner-city railroad lines.
Feb 16 A Mother Fights Toxic Pollution on the 'Cancer Coast' The Mississippi Gulf Coast of Mississippi is home to a high concentration of heavy industry. It also sufferes from high rates of cancer and other maladies. One mother is fighting back.
2007 January
Jan 29 Staten Island Speedway Scuttled Tempers boiled over when a councilman was squeezed in a headlock at a public hearing, but the Sierra Club prevailed in beating back a proposed racetrack on Staten Island.
Jan 16 New Wilderness for New England New England Wilderness Act of 2006 establishes new designated wilderness in Vermont and New Hampshire.
2006 December
Dec 20 Roadless Rule Reinstated By court order, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001 was reinstated, and the Bush administration's replacement "petition" rule scrapped, in September 2006.
Dec 7 Alaskans Nix Coal-Fired Plant Alaska Chapter activists do their homework in Montana to help convince the Seward city council to turn down a coal-fired power plant proposal.
Dec 7 'Adoption Plan' Boosts California Wilderness Bid A new law now protects portions of California's fabled Lost Coast, containing the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the Lower 48.
Dec 7 More Sewage in the Ohio? No, Thanks. The Sierra Club and allies fight a proposal that would allow more raw sewage to be released into the Ohio river.
Dec 1 Citizen Evidence Compels Cleanup Water samples and an "odor log" helps the Alabama Chapter win a clean water case against a neighboring hog factory.
