Blog posts from around the country
New Jersey Chapter
“I just want to say one word to you… Plastics.” This advice for Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” presaged a bright future for plastics. While they have come to serve a panoply of seemingly indispensable functions, their…
New Jersey Chapter
To help address the serious lack of waste management regulation, government leaders should adopt Skip the Stuff laws—removing single-use plastic items from delivery orders—and consider expanding current EPR legislation to reduce plastics waste, too.
Lower Eastern Shore Group / Maryland Chapter / Maryland
It's a great opportunity for us to meet in person and catch up on all the difficult but rewarding work Sierrans do all the time. Don't miss it!
Lower Eastern Shore Group / Maryland Chapter / Maryland
This will be the first opportunity the LES Group has had since Covid for members to meet in person, get to know one another, and strengthen the bonds between us.
Pennsylvania Chapter
Welcome to the online-only Pennsylvania Chapter newsletter, the Sylvanian! Please read our September 2024 issue!
New Jersey Chapter
On a mid-July Saturday, Sierra Club offered hikers a good walk on an almost undiscovered trail: the Radio Beacon Trail of the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, a well-hidden gem at the southeast corner of the tract, near Allentown.
New Jersey Chapter
The Supreme Court has made another radical departure from well-established law in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron deference doctrine, which required courts to defer to government…
New Jersey Chapter
By fits and starts, wind turbine development is making progress in New Jersey. In early July, the Department of the Interior announced its approval of the 2.8 gigawatt (GW) Atlantic Shores South offshore wind project, which will create enough energy…
New Jersey Chapter
In July, the NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club urged the US Coast Guard not to approve the NJ Turnpike Authority’s plans to replace the Casciano Bridge across Newark Bay between Newark and Bayonne and double the number of lanes from four to eight.