Blog posts from around the country
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Textiles are a major source of microplastics polluting our waters. Petroleum-based plastic is used extensively in mass-manufactured textiles, from our clothes to our bed sheets to our recreational gear. The pollution they create is everywhere.
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
The US Supreme Court recently submerged some protections for watersheds, ruling that protections of the federal Clean Water Act of 1972 applied only to wetlands with “continuous connection with an ocean, river, stream or lake.”
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
For five days in late July, volunteers from Woods & Wetlands and two other groups talked with visitors at the Lake County Fair about protecting open spaces. They also gathered hundreds of petition signatures to protect the Waukegan Savanna…
Pennsylvania Chapter
This is a call for Nominations to seek election to the Pennsylvania Chapter Executive Committee as an At-Large Member to serve 2024-2025.
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
School is back in session across Lake County—and so too is the Woods & Wetlands Sunday Speaker Series. The dynamite fall lineup begins on September 17, with a presentation on Lake County's newly designated old-growth forest.
Woods & Wetlands Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
If you live in Vernon Hills (zip code 60061), you can help now to reduce plastic waste: Sign a petition asking the Village Board to place a 20-cent fee on all single-use paper and plastic bags.
Sierra Club Illinois Chapter
Sangamon County has once again voted to shut down a carbon dioxide pipeline proposal from Navigator CO2 Ventures.
Grand Canyon Chapter
Map, FAQ, and Full Details -- of new 'Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument'