Blog posts from around the country
North Star Chapter
If the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) were to have a mascot it would be the ostrich, its head buried in the sand. The PUC approved permits for the deeply flawed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline in 2018. The PUC ignored Line 3’s…
Washington State Chapter
Governor Inslee’s office is sponsoring a first-of-its-kind conversation in Washington State about the future of the lower Snake River. The discussion will cover the four federal dams, the importance of our endangered salmon and steelhead populations…
Washington State Chapter
On November 22nd, 2019 the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) ruled that the environmental review for the Kalama Methanol Refinery used outdated information and baseless assumptions. Now that the project is in Ecology’s hands, this is a…
Washington State Chapter
Last month, on cold and blustery Seattle morning, we served pancakes to over 250 people in just two hours. The event, “Pancakes over Pipelines” was our latest fundraiser for Pull Together in Washington state and despite the weather, it was a huge…
Southeastern Pennsylvania Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Philadelphia Pennsylvania
On October 19, 2019, Chester County hosted a tour on the National Solar Tour. In 35 sites, covering the better part of the whole county, over 200 participants were welcomed. The Chester County Clean Energy Tour of 2019 was the…
Washington State Chapter
Once among the world’s richest salmon rivers, today the Columbia is the most dammed river system in the world and is managed as an “organic machine.” The capstone of the dam-building era was the Columbia River Treaty (CRT), negotiated in the 1950s…
Headwaters Group / Colorado Sierra Club / Colorado
Don’t despair: we will fight back, and, eventually, return stronger than before. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 13th December 2019
Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter
Channel Islands WILD! is a bold, new all-encompassing Sierra Club campaign to protect Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park.
WNC Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Beautiful Gorges State Park near Cashiers was narrowly spared from hydroelectric projects planned to create pumped storage for use by Duke Energy. Bill Thomas, former Chair of the North Carolina Chapter of Sierra Club, is widely credited with…