Written by Jim Wylie, PA Chapter Chair Every 5 years the electric utilities in PA must submit a plan to the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission (PUC) defining their Default Service Program (DSP) – basically defining how they will procure energy for...

On June 2, Montgomery County Commissioner Joseph G. Gale issued this statement criticizing recent protests against police brutality. Commissioners Valerie A. Arkoosh and Kenneth E. Lawrence, Jr. issued a response, which you can see...

On October 19, 2019, Chester County hosted a tour on the National Solar Tour.  In 35 sites, covering the better part of the whole county, over 200 participants were welcomed.  The Chester County Clean Energy Tour of 2019 was the culmination of a...

By Emily Davis, SPG treasurer Until I received the Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf as a gift, Alexander von Humboldt barely registered in my brain. I had heard of Humboldt and the Humboldt Current and the Humboldt penguin, but that was about...

The Sunrise Movement is pressing the Democratic National Committee to make at least one presidential debate focus entirely on our most dire existential emergency, climate change. This played out in July in a six hour training session, followed the...

In 1728, John Bartram (1699-1777), a third generation Pennsylvania Quaker, bought 102 acres of land on the west side of the Schuylkill River from Swedish settlers and began systematically exploring the New World from Florida to New England,...

On July 17 th, West Chester Borough Council stepped up to the plate and hit a home run. Not to be deterred by a state prohibition on municipal regulations of single-use plastics, the ordinance was passed 4 to 3 after a serious debate about what...

Developed and produced by two local Sierra Club members and environmental activists, Meenal Raval and Tanya Seaman, Philly Talks Climate has just reached its thirteenth episode, How Active Transportation is a Climate Solution.

In June of 2017 when President Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change grandstanding “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh not Paris”, the Mayors of both cities reactions clearly demonstrated they were more united...

Kevin Little, who describes himself as an urban Afro-American educator, has been volunteering with the Sierra Club for several years and is a member of the SPG Executive Committee. Sue Edwards is a member of the SPG Executive Committee in...