Blog posts from around the country
Sangamon Valley Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
The City of Springfield introduced a resolu
Washington DC Chapter
Sierra Club volunteers Lucas Godshalk and Payton Chung testified before the DC Council oversight hearing on the DC Department of Transportation. They called for expanded transportation electrification efforts, more protected bike lanes and…
Cherokee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
Joan Tomlinson, trail name Blue Jay, started hiking the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) at the California/Mexico border in April 2016 with the intention of getting to the Washington/Canada border to complete a thru-hike in one season. She was…
Great Waters Group / Wisconsin Chapter / Wisconsin
Join us at our Great Waters Group Volunteer Work Night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, in Milwaukee to help make our upcoming events a success. No matter what you like to do, we’d like your help — there's plenty to do to help protect our…
New Jersey Chapter
The NJ Sierra Club joined Congressman Josh Gottheimer at a press conference regarding efforts to clean up Greenwood Lake. Earlier this month, Governor Phil Murphy issued an absolute veto of NJ Senate Bill 2167 (Pennacchio/Webber/Pinkin), which…
New Jersey Chapter
This week, New Jersey and other states have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a motion to reconsider their new Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR). The rule would essentially exclude new renewable energy resources from the PJM…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen
Early on Monday morning, January 20, 2020, Martin Luther King Junior’s national holiday, a group of Houston Sierra Club volunteers drove to Big Thicket National Preserve, Big Sandy Creek Unit, to honor this civil rights “pioneer”…
Santa Barbara Group / Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter / California
Santa Barbara County Supervisor and environmental champion, Joan Hartmann, is facing unscrupulous tactics by oil-backed candidate, Bruce Porter, leading up to the March 3 primary election.