Blog posts from around the country

By Andrew Christie, Chapter Director 

The Texas Legislature is close to passing a bill that would take away the rights of citizens and cities to protect themselves against pollution and hazardous activities. HB 40, a bill heavily influenced by the oil and gas industry, would…

By Andrew Christie, Chapter Director

California Desert Conservation and Recreation ActThe monthly meeting of the Los Serranos Group of the Sierra Club is Tuesday, April 21, at 7:00 PM.  Monica Argandona, Southern California Conservation Director of the California Wilderness…

TUCSON– The Public Service Company of New Mexico’s (PNM) plans to continue burning coal at the San Juan Generating Station hit another hurdle yesterday when a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) hearing examiner recommended that the…

When we said renewable energy source, we didn't mean garbage. And burning garbage for power is not the "energy answer" we were looking for. Now that both the Howard County government and school system have separately cancelled their contracts with…

Friday the 13th marked the official deadline to file bills in the Texas Legislature. By then, over 4,000 bills were filed in the House and some 2,000 in the Senate, as well as multiple “resolutions” and even a few proposed constitutional amendments…

PHOENIX, Ariz.— U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell denied a request to halt new uranium mining at the Canyon uranium mine, located only six miles from Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim. The Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation…

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bloomberg Philanthropies announced today that it will invest an additional $30 million in the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign to secure replacement of half the nation’s coal fleet by 2017 with clean energy. Building…

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter Chair