Blog posts from around the country

Four Lakes Group / Wisconsin Chapter / Wisconsin
Olbrich Botanical Gardens is hosting classes and workshops to celebrate Pollinator Week from June 17-23! Pollinator Week is an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and beetles.
North Star Chapter
This week, we celebrated big news in the fight to Stop Line 3: On Monday, the courts denied Enbridge's Environmental Impact Statement for its failure to address the impact of spills on Lake Superior. We caught up with Scott Russell, this month's…
Lone Star Chapter
Vulcan 3009 Quarry wants to be San Antonio's new neighbor - and they're bringing their carcinogenic dust with them.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen It was nice to roll out of bed knowing that I was only 15 minutes away from the outing I was leading. I was selfish and had scheduled the June Houston Sierra Club outing at East End Park, a wonderful almost 160-acre park on the…
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
We will not have a program in July. Watch for details on our August meeting. See you then!    Photo courtesy of Free Art 
Florida Chapter
The Suncoast Sierra Club group and other donors have provided the Jim & Heather Gills YMCA of Greater St Petersburg with funding to install LED lighting throughout the facility.
Central Piedmont Group / North Carolina Chapter / North Carolina
Thursday, June 27, 2019 6:30 P.M.
North Carolina Chapter
The challenge to wind energy development continues in the N.C. General Assembly, as part of a flurry of environmentally harmful legislation considered this week, Cassie Gavin writes.
Maryland Chapter
On June 5th, The Maryland Board of Public Works voted 2-1 to greenlight moving forward on the climate disaster known as the widening of I-495 and I-270. Governor Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot cast their votes in favor, while Treasurer…
Washington DC Chapter
DC Chapter Water Committee Chair Larry Martin wrote to the DC Department of Transportation with questions about a proposed pedestrian bridge over the Anacosta River.