Blog posts from around the country
Infusion of volunteers needed to collect signatures for Antioch's Protect Sand Creek Area initiative
The signature drive to qualify the Sand Creek Area Protection Initiative is halfway done on the calendar, but we’re running slightly behind the pace needed to guarantee qualification for the November election.
Toiyabe Chapter
Efforts are underway to raise the Renewable Portfolio Standards (the minimum amount of renewable energy provided to consumers) in both California and Nevada, after both were defeated in each state last year. With your help this year, maybe they can…
Washington DC Chapter
As the Council considers the Solar Expansion for Cooperative Associations Act of 2018 (B22-229), to lift barriers to solar installation, reduce global warming pollution, and create more local solar jobs, we urge you to support the ability of DC…
Delta Chapter
We need your help! Many of our priority bills that we’re tracking are moving quickly through the legislative process, and your legislators need to hear from you. Please reach out to your representative and senator TODAY and tell them your stance…
Maryland Chapter
Last fall, the Governor announced a $9.1 billion plan to add 4 express toll lanes to the Capital Beltway (!-495) in Maryland, I-270 between Frederick and I-495, and to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Sierra Club Maryland has a number of concerns…
Delta Chapter
The Scenic Rivers Program is not the cause of the unprecedented flooding experienced by Louisiana in recent years, nor is the program making it worse. Eliminating or degrading the program will not solve the state’s flood problems. Dredging rivers…
Washington State Chapter
Good news: Legislation passed to ban non-native Atlantic salmon net pens in Puget Sound and to provide more protection for Puget Sound from oil pipelines. Not such good news: Carbon and renewable energy legislation stalled and the (Hirst decision)…
Washington State Chapter
More than 250 people gathered in Olympia to say “No!” to oil drilling off the Washington coast, including Sierra Club activists, Nisqually tribal leaders, Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz, coastal community leaders and businesses, plus…