Blog posts from around the country
Maine Chapter
We stand proudly in expressing our support of LD 179 for the renaming of this holiday in celebration of the 1st Nations to inhabit the lands we all now consider our home.
Much of the history learned in celebration of the founding of the government…
LD Testimony to Support LD102 An Act To Improve the Manufacturing of Plastic Bottles and Bottle Caps
The Sierra Club believes that unless action is
taken at the state level plastic pollution will continue to balloon into a crisis.
LD 102 takes a simple approach to reducing the amount of plastic in our environment: Force
manufactures to use recycled…
Maine Chapter
Looking toward the future, microgrids
are an important infrastructure tool that can increase grid resiliency, save ratepayers money, and
help stimulate local energy production. This legislation allows for the construction and operation
of microgrids…
Alabama Chapter
Harmony, truly, is what we seek as environmentalists. Let us perform small acts, every day, that represent our commitment to protecting the Earth and continue the legacy as defenders of nature, as a part of-Our Sierra Club.
Redwood Chapter
Even with the narrow defeat of Measure C, a 2018 ballot initiative to curb open space development in Napa Valley, conservationists are insisting that growth be checked to protect watersheds, riparian habitat and the oak woodlands on the hills lin
Alabama Chapter
The legislature tackled a handful of controversial bills this week, including a proposed lottery and the legalization of medical marijuana.
Alabama Chapter
Earthjustice on behalf of Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, Gasp, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and Sierra Club, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for improperly regulating coke ovens – producers of known carcinogens – thus failing to…
Florida Chapter
The Florida Poor People's Campaign held a field hearing in Belle Glade at the Sierra Club office as part of the National Emergency Truth and Poverty Tour.
Santa Barbara Group / Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter / California
Sitting through the all-day Plains sentencing hearing yesterday on punishment for their felony conviction for causing the 2015 Refugio oil spill was a lesson in our inability to hold oil companies like Plains accountable for even the most egregious…