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We Are Seeking A Volunteer To Be Our Chapter PAC Treasurer!
May 17, 2019
We are seeking a volunteer to be our Chapter PAC Treasurer!
Goodbye Compressor Station, See Ya Never Fracked Gas Plant
May 10, 2019
Sierra Club’s Maryland Chapter, Beyond Dirty Fuels, and Beyond Coal campaigns worked with partners to defeat a proposed fracked gas compressor station, and likely took down a proposed fracked gas power plant along with it. Dominion officially walked...
CSA’s: What They Are & Where to Find them
May 8, 2019
What is a CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture or CSA is an alternative food network in which together members purchase the farm’s harvest, splitting the cost and the volume of the harvest into “shares.” These shares help support the...
Beyond Coal: Where Maryland Needs to Go Next
May 3, 2019
Maryland’s progress in fighting climate change is like a ship that has done all it can to move full speed ahead, while still forgetting to pull up its anchor. That anchor is the old, dirty, non-renewable coal-fired power plants that are still...
Statement by the Maryland Sierra Club Celebrating the Election of Adrienne Jones as Speaker
May 3, 2019
On Wednesday, our state made history, choosing Adrienne Jones as Speaker of the House of Delegates, the first woman and the first African American to hold one of the top leadership positions in our state. We at the Sierra Club celebrate and honor...
Invasive Species of the Month: Lesser Celandine (Fig Buttercup)
May 1, 2019
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We have been working hard to remove the invasive plant, Lesser Celandine, from parks near the College Park Sierra Club office, including Magruder...
Why We All Should Be Sounding The Alarm On Climate Change
April 25, 2019
“I want you to panic. I want you to act as if the house was on fire.” These are the words Greta Thunberg, a 16 year old Swedish climate activist and Nobel Peace Prize candidate, chose to open her speech to the European Parliament on April 16. She...
Improve Your Garden with Native Plants
April 16, 2019
Native plants are an important part of any ecosystem because they maintain the ecosystem’s natural life cycle. Native plants are those that grow in a particular region without direct human involvement.
Struggling to find places that sell native...
Reflecting on the MD Clean Energy Jobs Act
April 15, 2019
On the final day of the 2019 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA), SB516, with veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate. The bill went through a truly up and down ride throughout session....
Maryland Sierra Club Testimony – 2019 General Assembly Session
April 9, 2019
The Sierra Club testified on a total of 75 bills in the 2019 MD General Assembly Session. We testified in support, or support with amendments, on 70 bills; 31 of these bills passed; 30 are awaiting review by the Governor, and one was vetoed and the...