With rallies, protests, lobbying, and letter-writing campaigns, Pennsylvania Sierra Club activists have been working to rein in their state's fracking juggernaut. In January, they were delighted when newly elected Governor Tom Wolf (D) reinstated a moratorium on new drilling in state parks and forests. The moratorium had been enacted by Governor Ed Rendell (D) in 2010, only to be rescinded in 2014 by his successor, Tom Corbett (R). 

"Corbett had wanted to open up the parks and forests to new leasing as a way to balance the state budget," says Jeff Schmidt, Pennsylvania Chapter Public Lands Committee co-chair. "The Sierra Club led the effort to block future leases on public lands." To learn more about the Pennsylvania Chapter's efforts to control natural gas drilling, go to the Sierra Club's Pennsylvania Chapter. To learn about the Sierra Club's effort to control drilling nationwide, go to sierraclub.org/naturalgas.