Blog Posts

The Ohio Chapter of the Sierra Club is looking for dedicated members who want to take on the exciting and challenging role of being a member of the Chapter Executive Committee (ExComm) by running as a candidate in the upcoming 2019 election for a 2...

The unfortunate passage of HB6, the coal and nuclear bailout bill, on July 23rd would not have come to fruition without the help of three Democratic State Senators and nine Democratic State Representatives, who broke with their party and ignored the...

The House passed a major defense spending bill today that includes important amendments requiring the Defense Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor and clean up the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.

Ohio House Bill 6 is a huge proposed bailout for FirstEnergy, the electric utility that owns Ohio’s two nuclear power plants, Davis-Besse and Perry, both located on Lake Erie where they threaten the drinking water of millions.

By Pat Marida On May 13, headlines were made around the world when the Scioto Valley School Board closed the Zahn’s Corners Middle School in Piketon, Ohio for an indefinite period.  Closure was due to neptunium, a radioactive element, being...

By Pat Mirada    On June 19, in a decision favorable to Ohio consumers, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed a PUCO (Public Utilities Commission of Ohio) order allowing FirstEnergy to collect between $168 million and $204 million yearly...

Called the “Advanced Nuclear Technology Helping Energize Mankind (ANTHEM) Act,” HB 104 would establish an “Ohio Nuclear Development Authority” and an “Ohio Nuclear Development Consortium” that would authorize tax credits for investments therein.

The Stonewall uprising was 50 years ago this month. All across the world, people are honoring the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson, the Black trans woman who threw the first brick at Stonewall and sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement.

by Cheryl Johncox Building off of our partnership with the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign and the Water Justice Field Hearing, Guy Jones, local elder and Sierra Club partner, contacted us in early March to ask if Shelly Corbin and I would be on the...

Many of us are already taking steps to reduce waste when at home, but what about when we’re traveling? Travel tends to invite single-use items such as disposable food containers, plastic utensils, and snack wrappers. You can easily find yourself in...