Blog posts from around the country
Lone Star Chapter
Environment Texas, Sierra Club, and the Port Arthur Community Action Network announced back on May 22 that they planned to sue Valero Energy Corporation and the Premcor Refining Group, Inc., in federal court for illegally releasing nearly two…
WNC Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Trump Administration Attacks the "Public and "Public Lands"
Cherokee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
Chattanooga's Airport (Lovell Field) has recently received national attention in December, discussed in a 2018 Bloomberg article titled "The First Solar-Powered U.S. Airport Is In The City Once Called 'Dirtiest.'
Maryland Chapter
The following blog post is by the Maryland Sierra Club’s Energy Intern Angela Scafidi. She worked to help organize our outing in Maxwell Hall Park with the Southern Maryland Group and Maryland State Senator Arthur Ellis.
Washington DC Chapter
The DC government requires for all children to be tested for lead at 6 months and 2 years old – this is when children are particularly susceptible to health problems resulting from lead. Furthermore, we encourage for all DC residents to be fully…
San Gorgonio Chapter
Keep California Leading:Our Voice at the CapitolPresented by Mary Ann Ruiz RSVP here!Aug 6, 2019, 7:30pmSan Bernardino County Museum, 2014 Orange Tree Lane, Redlands While our federal government dodges any action to avert a…
North Star Chapter
The proposed Enbridge Line 3 crude oil pipeline will run 340 miles through northern Minnesota, crossing more than 200 water bodies and 75 miles of wetlands. It also threatens wild rice areas important to the Anishinaabe. Stunningly, Enbridge already…
North Star Chapter
Minnesota Power is still trying to build Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC), a proposed new gas-burning power plant. Despite a ruling last July that NTEC was not “needed or reasonable” and not in the public interest, the Minnesota PUC approved the…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
This is an opportunity for you to be represented at an important Regional Climate Emergency Mobilization Strategy meeting taking place next Friday, July 26th. We ask Sierra Club members and supporters to please call and ask their mayor, city council…
Santa Cruz Group / Ventana Chapter / California
The recent fire in Monterey County, caused by PG&E’s failing infrastructure, is no surprise. It underscores PG&E’s decades of egregious failure to provide a safe system -- neither adequately maintaining nor upgrading its weak, antiquated,…