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North Carolina's finalized Clean Transportation Plan offers a solid map for our state's transition of the sector that currently is our biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, according to the N.C. Sierra Club. The plan, delivered to Gov...

The N.C. Chapter had a busy 2022, with many accomplishments and many challenges. This year is already bringing much of the same. Download our annual report for the highlights of what happened and what's in store - and share it with a friend...

Many North Carolinians are already faced with hard decisions about whether to pay their utility bill or buy food, housing or other necessities. These neighbors simply can't tolerate the rate hike Duke Energy Progress is proposing - a nearly 20%...

The U.S. Forest Service officially published the Final Forest Plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests today, moving forward with a plan that recklessly opens critical areas of these two forests to logging and roadbuilding. The Forest...

Just over a year ago, Gov. Roy Cooper directed state agencies to come up with a clean transportation plan. What progress have we made since then? What's next on our route toward becoming the "Green Roads State"?

A clutch of new leaders has stepped up to guide the N.C. Sierra Club's activities in 2023. Thanks to all our members who voted in the year-end Chapter and Group executive committee elections!

The N.C. Sierra Club took long strides in 2022 toward our goals for clean energy and clean transportation development, lasting protections for our air and water, and the inclusion of all North Carolinians in our environmental priorities and progress.

We've talked a lot about the environmental benefits North Carolina can reap from "greening" our roads and the vehicles that use them. There's another way North Carolinians can profit - literally - as we continue our path toward becoming the "Green...

In another step towards North Carolina’s clean transportation future, Gov. Roy Cooper today signed an executive order directing the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to begin the rulemaking process to adopt the Advanced Clean Trucks rule,...

Industrial hog companies promote biogas as a clean energy source and a way to use up hog farm waste. The dirty truth is this: Making biogas from hog waste doesn’t solve the industry’s longstanding air and water pollution problems in North Carolina....