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Explore. Enjoy. Protect. These three words - the Sierra Club’s motto - are our guiding principles as we work together to safeguard our world’s environment. Now, as nations across that world reel from the coronavirus pandemic, they can still guide...

The final draft of a multi-year management plan for the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests, setting rules for timbering, wilderness management, species protection and outdoor recreation, was opened for public comment today by the U.S. Forest...

A team of Sierrans met recently with fellow North Carolinians to learn how best to draw on community strengths to fight environmental injustice. Members of the Chapter’s Equity, Inclusion and Justice Committee participated in “Reclaiming Our Power...

The legislature met this week and primarily focused on drawing a new map for North Carolina’s 13 U.S. congressional voting districts after a state court signaled that they are likely to rule the existing congressional districts to be...

Molly Diggins, who has led the N.C. Chapter of the Sierra Club as its original and only state director for 22 years, will retire from that position as of Nov. 8. Dustin Chicurel-Bayard will serve as the organization’s interim director during the...

Big news on the Duke Energy bill this week: The legislature unanimously passed S 559, “Storm Securitization,” after removing the multi-year ratemaking section that Sierra Club and other environmental, social justice and industry groups opposed....

State lawmakers today passed a newly revised version of the Duke Energy ratemaking bill, scrapping one of the most controversial proposals of the session - language that would have allowed utilities to seek up to three years of rate increases at a...

This week at the General Assembly, the House Redistricting Committee discussed three bills that would change the way voting districts are drawn. There were no votes on the environmental bills we’ve been following, Cassie Gavin writes.

As local communities increasingly seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and respond to public demand for clean energy, customers of the Fayetteville Public Works Commission will soon be able to purchase affordable solar power thanks to a...

Environmental bills were in a holding pattern this week at the General Assembly - and for another week, as lawmakers take some time off, Cassie Gavin writes.