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This state has denied a water quality permit three times for a controversial methane pipeline.
What is North Carolina?
Kids in this school grade are eligible for a free National Parks pass.
What is 4th Grade?
In 2014, the Sierra Club Board of Directors voted to adopt these Principles for Democratic Principles.
What are the Jemez Principles?
Katmai National Park hosts this tournament-style competition in September, drawing social media attention from around the world.
What is Fat Bear Week?
This 1970 law requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of proposed projects before decisions are made, often through Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?
In 2025, this state, known for coal mining, saw thousands of people submitting comments telling the utility companies that prices were too high for Mawmaw.
What is West Virginia?
This Sierra Club Chapter Director was recently named to Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill's "Making Energy More Affordable and Reliable" Task Force.
Who is Anjuli Ramos?
This state boasts the highest number of "14-ers" than any other state in the U.S.
What is Colorado?
This alliterative artist kicked off his career as a trip photographer with Sierra Club, and eventually served nearly four decades on Sierra Club's board of directors.
Who was Ansel Adams?
This is the collective noun for a group of porcupines.
What is a prickle?
This Republican President established the Environmental Protection Agency.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This state has seen the fastest growing electricity bills, largely attributed to years of devastating wildfires.
What is California?
Millions of people commented on this "rule" when it was first proposed in 2001; this year, the Trump Administration is proposing its repeal.
What is the Roadless Rule?
This is the newest designated national park in the United States, established December 27, 2020, and signed into law surprisingly enough, by Donald Trump.
What is New River Gorge [National Park]?
At the time of her death, this author and scientist donated future royalties of her book Silent Spring to the Sierra Club.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This endangered amphibian of Appalachia is threatened by pipelines.
What is a bogturtle?
This law, passed by Congress in 1970, established the federal government's role in regulating air pollution.
What is the Clean Air Act?
It's like magic. This special kind of utility program causes your energy bills to go down the more of it you get.
What is energy efficiency [or demand management]?
Creative work by this Sierra Club Campaign got a Fourth Circuit judge to cite the Lorax in a ruling in Sierra Club's favor.
What is Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign?
After the lauded National Parks system, this type of national park unit attracted the next most number of visitors in 2024.
What are National Recreation Areas?
In 2022, a Sierra Club environmental law program attorney went on a six-game winning streak on Jeopardy! winning over $60,000.
Who is Megan Watchpress?
This critically endangered, semi-aquatic species is known for its four methods of breathing (and is also named after an Aztec god).
What is the Axolotl?
This under-the-radar agency was born in 1977 with a charge of regulating interstate commerce of oil, gas, and electricity - and overseeing dams.
What is the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency [or FERC]?
Between January 2021 and August of the same year, the price of this common commodity doubled, driving up electricity prices across the country.
What is [natural / fracked / methane] gas?
A 1960s nationwide Sierra Club ad campaign compared the Grand Canyon to this European Landmark in an effort to rally opposition against the Interior Department's plans to build dams.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
In 2024, this National Park attracted more visitors than any other national park by 3x, drawing more than 12% of all visitors through its gates alone.
What is [Great] Smoky [Mountains] National Park?
This former Supreme Court Justice served on the Sierra Club's Board of Directors from 1960 to 1962.
Who is William O. Douglas?
This was the first animal to be removed from the Endangered Species Act, in 1985, because it was ‘recovered’.
What is the Brown Pelican?
This global agreement, adopted in 1997, aimed to reduce carbon emissions but was never ratified by the United States.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
Mr. Monopoly made a visit to this state, railing against a massive increase proposed by Warren Buffet's utility company.
What is Utah?