Our Issues

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For more than 50 years, the North Carolina Chapter of Sierra Club has helped to protect natural areas, ensure clean air and water, promote clean energy solutions, and more on behalf of all our state's people.

Our current focus areas include:

  • Climate change, including coastal adaptation and more clean energy use and access as a way to mitigate its impact
  • Pollution in our air, land and water, whether in heavily populated areas, rural communities or our natural areas
  • Public lands, where we seek to safeguard rare and endangered species, protect recreational and biologically sensitive areas from extraction, and assure that all our state's residents and visitors have safe access
  • Equity, inclusion and justice for North Carolinians of color and other underserved peoples, who are most affected by environmental degradation and natural disasters
  • NC's Carbon Plan, which is intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation. We're keeping an eye on the N.C. Utilities Commission and Duke Energy as they work on the Carbon Plan's 2024 update.

Donate to Protect NC!

Want to support this work? To make sure 100% of your charitable gift stays right here at home, make a tax-deductible donation online now. Or you can mail your gift to:

The Sierra Club Foundation - NC Chapter
P.O. Box 30396
Raleigh, NC 27622-0396

Follow this link to support our policy and legislative advocacy work.

Questions? Please email us at nc.chapter@sierraclub.org.

 

 

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Climate & Clean Energy

To address climate change we must transition away from fossil fuels and to a clean energy economy. The NC Sierra Club advocates for policies that help communities in North Carolina do just that, while preparing for and mitigating the damage that...
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Pollution

The NC Sierra Club has worked since 1970 to protect air, water and land across our state from a wide range of pollution sources, such as industrial smokestacks, coal plants, and factory hog farm waste lagoons.
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Public Lands

In keeping with the Sierra Club’s core principles, North Carolina Sierrans are working to protect public lands so that all citizens have the opportunity to explore and enjoy nature.
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Equity, Inclusion & Justice

We believe equity, inclusion, and justice issues are an integral part of all the N.C. Chapter’s programming and conservation priorities.
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Duke Energy is Still Failing NC

The N.C. Utilities Commission and Duke Energy are working on an updated Carbon Plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation 70% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve “net zero” emissions by 2050. What they've produced so far...