Blog posts from around the country
North Carolina Chapter
Budgets are about appropriating funds, but they have long been a favorite place for North Carolina politicians to insert policy provisions that might not garner sufficient votes on their own. That tradition held true this week as the General…
Lone Star Chapter
Just north of Corpus Christi, at the edge of the small city of Gregory, which is literally down the street from Portland along State Highway 181 sits an empty field full of flowers. If Exxon gets its way it might become the site of the largest…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
If you’re hearing twittering followed by rapid, high-pitched chirps in your fireplace, you’ve got Chimney Swifts but before you call an exterminator to have them removed, it’s important to know that the birds have the law on their side. They are…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Harris County will hold a special bond election on August 25, 2018 to approve flood mitigation projects. The date chosen marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall. The public will be asked to approve the $2.5 billion of…
Maryland Chapter
The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) was created on December 4, 1967, by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, to address the issues of unemployment, housing shortages for the…
Alabama Chapter
Nearly a dozen Sierra Club members from Alabama and Georgia convened at the annual Southern Company stockholder meeting on May 23 to urge the company to continue bringing clean renewable energy online, provide funding for energy efficiency progra
Oregon Chapter
The past month has been a whirlwind of introductions and hard work! When I first came on board as the Chapter’s Portland Clean Energy Fund Campaign Organizer, I had a basic idea of the various needs I would be supporting this summer. Over the past…
North Carolina Chapter
The NC Senate today gave tentative approval to the state budget that has mixed news for the environment, particularly for water quality and clean transportation - topics "all North Carolinians can get behind - but apparently not all legislators," N.…
Atlantic Chapter
by Bob Ciesielski, Chapter Energy Committee Chair This year the Atlantic Chapter and the Beyond Coal Campaign will be wo