Maryland Chapter Blog

This afternoon, the Department of Energy announced conditional approval for Dominion's Cove Point, Maryland facility to export liquefied natural gas. In response Deb Nardone, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Natural Gas Campaign, released the...

Posted: Friday, September 6, 2013 7:37 amBy ELISHA SAUERS esauers@capgaznews.comNine candidates sounded off on development and environmental issues in the first debate of the Annapolis election season.The Anne Arundel County chapters of...

Reposted from Sierra Club Blog "Compass".   Aug 28, 2013, by Gina Coplon-Newfield Recently, I parked my plug-in Prius near my daughter's camp in Cambridge, MA, and took the train into Boston for a normal work...

We have said it for years now and we have seen various reports on the horrid air quality in Baltimore. But this is---this is horrific. A troubling new report in the journal, Atmospheric Environment, states that nationwide, 200,...

Last time you heard from me, I was able to share the news of our exciting and historic victory passing the passing Offshore Wind in the state of Maryland. Well, I can't announce another victory like that (yet...) but it has been a busy summer, and...

Dear fellow Sierrans. I hope you can join me this year at the Maryland Sierra Club Jamboree - our bi-annual membership gathering. This is when we take a break from the lobbying, emails, conference calls, newsletters, and phonebanking to join...

Maryland's Marcellus Shale Study Commission is conducting several studies as part of the process to determine if it is safe and appropriate to drill for gas in western Maryland's Marcellus shale formation.  Take the survey now to voice...

Marylanders can look to the north to see how not to approach climate change and fracking. StateImpact, a project of two NPR stations in Pennsylvania, recently broke a story that should make all of us wary about fracking and state reports.The...

Working as a summer intern at the Sierra Club, Maryland Chapter, I was sent to attend the Fourth Annual Choose Clean Water Conference in Baltimore, MD (August 2013). As an environmental health major at the University of Maryland College Park and a...

As one of our intern-only activities, the Maryland office interns went on a splash hike on the Saturday morning of July 20th. Having never taken part in a hike through a river, none of us knew what to expect.One of the lasting impressions I got...