On December 14, 2020, County Executive Marc Elrich released the Draft Climate Action Plan for public review. The Climate Action Plan is intended to be Montgomery County’s strategic plan to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80% by 2027 and 100% by...

Delegate Barve has written a letter to the Montgomery County Council asking the Council to withdraw what has become a potentially harmful bill, the modified ZTA 20-01, because it would effectively Ban 98% of Affordable Solar Energy in Montgomery...

Read the letter from the Montgomery County Sierra Club to the County Council asking to withdraw from Council consideration  the Solar ZTA 20-01 bill as amended on January 26th. It also urges the council to consider an alternate solution that...

In the past few weeks, the Sierra Club has received questions regarding the position taken by the Montgomery County Sierra Club on the proposed Solar ZTA. We have also seen some webpages and emails which have improperly interpreted Sierra Club...

A so-called “Conditional Use” idea for Community Solar in Montgomery County IS NOT a compromise - It’s a DEAD END for Community Solar. Despite more than a year of careful analysis, compromise, and inclusion of strong environmental and agricultural...

Sierra Club Montgomery County Press Statement supporting Missing Middle housing ZTA introduced by Montgomery County Council Member William Jawando. Sierra Club’s top priorities are to address climate change and to address racial justice and equity...

Every ten years, each County in Maryland is required by the State to prepare a solid waste management plan that covers ten years and to update the plans every three years.  The Department of Environmental Protection recently submitted its...

Sierra Club Montgomery County Group, along with several others**, has signed onto a “Better Buses” platform, to launch a comprehensive redesign of the Ride-On and Metrobus routes in the county. Buses promote sustainable and equitable transportation...

The Montgomery County Sierra Club testified twice this year (in January and July) to advocate and urge the Gaithersburg City Council to adopt the Montgomery County Pesticide Law. It was adopted recently on Aug 18th. The decision was announced in...

Our Montgomery County government is facing an unprecedented number of weighty issues right now… how to protect residents and support local small businesses, when and how to safely get kids back to school, dealing with the much lower than planned...