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We are thrilled to announce that Ben Jealous will be joining the Sierra Club as our new Executive Director! This is a historic moment for our organization and for the environmental movement. Ben is at his heart a decades-long activist, an...

Ask Your State Legislators to Say YES! to Clean Energy & More Sustainable Transportation   We need your help to ensure that our legislative priorities are being heard in Columbus. In recent years, the Ohio legislature has made it...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 13, 2022 Contact: Teresa Mills, tmills@benohio.org 614-539-1471 and Morgan Caplan, Sierra Club, morgan.caplan@sierraclub.org Environmental Groups and Impacted Residents Urge US EPA...

We all love to celebrate an environmental win, and though the passing of preemption legislation H.B. 242 in 2021 has made it even more difficult for local municipalities to manage waste and plastic pollution, there are still local governments that...

Written by Melanie Moynan-Smith Athens Rethink Plastics and Sierra Club Ohio participated in the 2022 annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival on Sept. 16-18 at Lake Snowden Park near Albany. Athens Rethink Plastics (ARP) is a group of individuals...

Columbus, OH - Today, Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that shows that a class of extremely toxic chemicals known as PFAS has been used in Ohio’s oil and gas wells since at least 2013. Due to gaps in Ohio’s...

The Sierra Club's Ready for 100 Campaign in partnership with RE-Volv and IOBY celebrated a Solar Energy Installation Ribbon Cutting at Garden Valley Neighborhood House (GVNH) on Friday, September 16th. Garden Valley Neighborhood House was...

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 Columbus, Ohio - Earlier this month, the grocery store chain Giant Eagle, announced plans to remove single-use plastic bags from its nearly two dozen Columbus-area stores on Oct. 20 in "support of building greener...

POLLINATOR GARDENS From the Portage Trail Group September 2022 “Pollinators [bees, wasps, butterflies and other insects] are essential to life as we know it on Planet Earth . . . If pollinators were to disappear, 87 to 90 percent of the...

On August 4th, the Ohio Beyond Coal Campaign hosted a virtual screening of Cheshire, Ohio. This documentary film is about a town devastated by pollution from the Gavin Power Plant (owned by AEP), which at the time of the film was Ohio’s largest coal...