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A group of volunteers in southeastern PA, NJ and DE from Sierra Club and The Climate Reality Project have organized a project (based on the SC national Community Advocates program) that is aimed at engaging with local stakeholder groups that can...

Every year, on the first Sunday in October, hundreds of Pennsylvanians take to the forest for “A Walk in Penn’s Woods” day. According to the PA Forestry Association, “This day is a statewide coordinated event encouraging people across Pennsylvania...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Today, Governor Shapiro announced that he is directing the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to begin formal rulemaking processes to start to rein in the hazardous and unchecked pollution of the fracking industry that...

“I’m marching because America is ready to take bold action to cut climate pollution!” Fred Kraybill, volunteer with the Allegheny Group and Clean Transportation Team, was ready to hit the New York City streets for the March to End Fossil Fuels on...

HARRISBURG -- Today, in a divided decision, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled against the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and preventing the Department of Environmental Protection from enforcing the rule. 

The Kittatinny Group includes two counties in Eastern Pennsylvania: Berks and Schuylkill. These counties were originally part of the Governor Pinchot Group (GVP) formed in 1971, which was based in Berks County. Earth Day 1970 was the inspiration to...

Sending a warm hello to all Sierra Club staff, volunteers, and community members! My name is Cinthia Ibarra (she/her), and I am thrilled to join the Pennsylvania Sierra Club team as a Philadelphia Climate Works (PCW) Organizer.

The Canadian Wildfires produced an onslaught of toxic smoke throughout the United States. Canada had health directives and information that included N-95 and respirator masks, but the U.S. appears to have no masking safety directives for our...

If you think the natural world is precious, if you think a stable climate is worth more than shareholder profits, it’s usually pretty clear which energy projects to support or oppose. If it involves digging up, drilling, transporting, liquifying or...