Blog posts from around the country
Washington DC Chapter
The Sierra Club wrote DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson asking that the DC Council fund the Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act of 2018 and other environmental priorities. The letter asks Mendelson to retain in the fiscal year 2020 budget two commercial…
New Jersey Chapter
Late Friday night, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by President Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in 120 million acres of the Arctic Ocean and parts of the North Atlantic coast was unlawful. The decision, by…
North Carolina Chapter
Durham City Council members unanimously passed a resolution on Monday that commits the city to an equitable transition to 100% renewable energy and carbon neutrality by 2050.
North Carolina Chapter
Gov. Roy Cooper’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today ordered Duke Energy to excavate all remaining coal ash impoundments in North Carolina and move the toxic waste to lined storage.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH, 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, 77005, 713-639-7300), will premiere “The Legend of Big Bend” on Sunday, April 28, 2019, from 3:00 to 4:30 pm....
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Oregon Chapter
The Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club recently completed an assessment of our organizational conservation priorities for 2019. We had 31 conversations with those partners and volunteer leaders around the state to help us shape our 2019 priority…
Oregon Chapter
It’s hard to believe, but we’re already about nine weeks into the 2019 Oregon legislative session. The Oregon Sierra Club is tracking some 90 bills introduced this session, and in some cases actually moving them in the direction that we prefer! We…
Lone Star Chapter
The Sierra Club Foundation is pleased to announce that H-E-B, in recognition of Earth Day, has selected EarthShare of Texas to be the April beneficiary for its in-store coupon promotion. This means that customers can tear off and add check-out…