Annapolis, M.D.--The Maryland State Senate just passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act (CEJA). CEJA will accelerate the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 50% by 2030, provide millions of…
BOSTON, MA -- On Saturday, over 50 municipal officials gathered at Framingham State University for the culminating event of a year-long series of Climate Leadership Summits organized by the…
RICHMOND, Virginia – Yesterday, Dominion Energy filed their corrected 2018 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP): a long-range forecast of electricity demand and how the monopoly utility intends to meet…
Our organizations work together across Maryland on environmental issues. To us, that work is an integral part of the larger work for social justice. We strive to protect the natural world out of a…
Annapolis, MD – Josh Tulkin, Director of the Sierra Club Maryland Chapter, released the following statement regarding the recent news of Delegate Mary Ann Lisanti’s (District 34A) use of a racial…
Baltimore, MD-- Baltimore City Councilmember Kristerfer Burnett (District 8), in partnership with the Sierra Club, introduced a resolution today calling for the Maryland General Assembly to pass, and…
Harrisburg, P.A.-- Governor Wolf signed an executive order today committing Pennsylvania to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent by 2025 and 80 percent by 2050 from 2005 levels, consistent…
Trenton, New Jersey -- Governor Murphy announced his plan to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative today, a multi-state program establishing limits on carbon pollution from the region’s power…
Pittsburgh, PA -- The Pennsylvania Department of the Environmental Protection (DEP) hosted a public hearing yesterday on its drafted update to the water pollution permit for the Bruce Mansfield coal-…
BALTIMORE, MD — The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Health filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…