Blog posts from around the country
North Carolina Chapter
Cassie Gavin tells how the Senate hurried along several environmentally harmful bills this week, as budget negotiators do their work behind closed doors. The negotiations seem to have opened up space for more committee work, Gavin writes.
Middle Tennessee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) has determined that the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an invasive insect that destroys ash trees has been found in Davidson County. The EAB is attacking all species of North American ash trees and unless…
Governor Pinchot Group / Pennsylvania Chapter / Pennsylvania
Exelon Corporation’s self-imposed deadline for closure of the undamaged reactor at Three Mile Island (TMI) has legislators racing to find a way to keep the nuclear plant open for more years.
Lone Star Chapter
This week, Texas residents, community leaders and environmental groups took to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in Austin to stand for the communities of the Rio Grande Valley and Corpus Christi who are targets for liquified…
Georgia Chapter
On the last day of Georgia's 2019 Energy Plan Hearing at the Georgia Public Service Commission, more than 100 residents from across Georgia came out to #SpeakTruth2GAPower and call for clean affordable energy to address our global climate crisis.
Toiyabe Chapter
Pumped storage projects have been proposed in the Eastern Sierra. They're helpful for renewable energy, but they can conflict with wilderness designations and sensitive wildlife habitat. Sierra Club is working to find the best path forward without…
Georgia Chapter
On Thursday, May 30, the Sierra Club Military Outdoors and Georgia Chapter gathered at Mulberry Gap Mountain Bike Get-a-way for our 2019 Outings Leader Training. It was the first SCMO leadership training course in the Southeast since 2017 and the…
North Carolina Chapter
The N.C. Senate today passed a bill that would block wind energy development - and the economic boost it provides - across much of North Carolina for three years.
North Carolina Chapter
Citing "significant adverse impacts" on fish habitats, fisheries, marine food webs and North Carolina's coastal economy, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) today rebuffed a company's plan to conduct seismic blasting off the coast.