Blog posts from around the country
Pennsylvania Chapter
It is critical that these oil and gas wells be located, assessed, and plugged but DEP’s orphan well plugging program funds come from current permit fees, which typically only amount to hundreds of dollars per new well — far less than the thousands…
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
The Sierra Club Speakers’ Series on February 1
Piasa Palisades Group / Sierra Club Illinois Chapter / Illinois
Several PPG members attended the annual Bald Eagle Audubon Survey on January 20.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Welcome to the Houston Sierra Club online Bayou Banner newsletter for February 2018. Click the title to see the news this month.
Loma Prieta Chapter
（By Michelle Lee）
Not too long ago—on Thursday, January 4, 2018—the Trump administration proposed to open up almost the entire United States coastal waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. More than one billion acres in the Arctic, as well as along…
Santa Cruz Group / Ventana Chapter / California
We’ve never seen anything like this. This month, Trump unveiled a plan to hand 90% of America’s coasts over to Big Oil. It would be the largest expansion of offshore drilling ever, expanding drilling into nearly all of America’s waters including six…
Massachusetts Chapter
Late last year the City of Cambridge reported that the city’s tree canopy shrank by 6.7 percent between 2009 and 2014. This finding was based on an analysis of an aerial LiDAR survey by researchers at the University of Vermont and documented in a…
Ohio
Our democracy is being threatened at the state house! Ohio Senate Bill 210 would hamper local governments' efforts to reduce waste and litter associated with disposable food packaging and carryout bags. The bill, introduced by Senator Coley, has…