Blog posts from around the country

Maryland Chapter
With spring materializing in daffodils and warmer temperatures, the Sierra Club is offering more opportunities to get outside with fellow members! So shake off those winter blues and giant jackets, and get outside to remove invasive plants at Ruth B…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
As we do every year, the Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter will be participating in Earth Month celebrations all throughout the Bay Area this April. Join us at the following festivals, tree-plantings, film festivals, and other gatherings to celebrate and…
Lone Star Chapter
It has been more than a week since the petrochemical storage tank fire started burning. As many Texans watched in horror the huge trail of black smoke stretch for miles (it reached the I-35 corridor and beyond), residents of Deer Park and…
Wisconsin Chapter
The proposal showcases the new governor’s priorities, including some major environmental goals. Here are some main takeaways: where the money’s going and what could happen if the full proposal passes.
Wisconsin Chapter
Wisconsin's Spring Conservation Hearings on the second Monday in April (April 8) at 7 p.m. are a long standing tradition – and an opportunity! These joint meetings are held in each county of the state on the same day and time each year. The…
North Carolina Chapter
Activity on environmental bills sped up at the NC General Assembly this week. Senators filed several environmentally harmful bills including a proposal to ban wind energy in much of eastern North Carolina and a bill to disallow local governments…
Florida Chapter
Plans to push a new set of roads into rural areas of Florida at the expense of wildlife habitat protection and preventing urban sprawl are advancing in the Florida Legislature.
North Star Chapter
What the EPA is proposing and how we got here; what's at stake, and what you can do about it.
Massachusetts Chapter
While checking the week's weather, I discovered my phone's weather app has a subsection about air quality. Curious, I began to check air quality every day before I went to work. A pattern appeared.
Massachusetts Chapter
As a kid, I was morbidly interested in roadkill. I felt sad about the animals' deaths, but I was also excited to see species like porcupines and beavers (even if they weren'y alive).