Blog posts from around the country
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Houston Sierra Club is a member group of our regional Citizens' Environmental Coalition (CEC), and we encourage your support of this year's Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Tour, one of the largest environmental film festivals in North America…
Lone Star Chapter
Lots went down earlier this month. Check out how our endorsed candidates did in this historic election!
Redwood Chapter
The following is a press release Leslie Lukacs, chair of the Zero Waste North Bay group, prepared for the Press Democrat.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
The controversial 125-unit “Tassajara Parks” project planned for the protected side of the County’s Urban Limit Line, next to Danville, has been on hold for months. Now that the elections have settled some political questions bearing on ultimate…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Unknown to personnel in Richmond’s Chevron refinery, the walls of an eight-inch pipe carrying a 450-degree, high-sulfur oil distillation were getting dangerously thin. Refinery personnel were aware that sulfur in material flowing through a carbon…
Lone Star Chapter
The report tells us in 1,656 pages - three years of work by more than 300 government officials, academics, and private sector researchers - what we’ve already felt in a very visceral, painful way.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
We tend to think of birds as very similar, but according to Eddie Bartley, they can be as different from each other as a giraffe is from a mouse. This difference in bird species is especially true when it comes to migration, a stressful and risky…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
Shockingly, San Francisco's water agency has sided with the Trump administration to oppose the Bay-Delta restoration plan — even though the science is clear that we can protect water supplies for San Francisco and revive our waterways.
San Francisco Bay Chapter
In a dramatic new challenge to developer Phil Tagami’s plan to export coal through a new marine terminal at the former army base in West Oakland, the City of Oakland has announced that the 66-year lease on the city-owned property has been terminated…