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Big New Investments in Wind Energy Across the Country and Around the World
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After spending last weekend at the Heartland Coalfield Alliance's retreat in the Illinois coal basin region, I'm more inspired than ever. Listening to such amazing, committed people talk about their tireless work to move beyond coal was really exciting. These... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Compass
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Our Land, Our Water, Our Future: The Australia Beyond Coal & Gas Conference
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Sierra Club Organizing Director Bob Bingaman speaks at the "Australian Our Land, Our Water, Our Future: Beyond Coal and Gas" conference. If you love this country, fight for it. This will be the biggest social movement this country has ever... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Compass
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Sierra Club & Solar Crowdfunding For the World's Poor
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More than 1.3 billion people around the world live in darkness lacking access to even small amounts of life changing electricity. The good news is we can change their fate and help solve climate change at the same time. The... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2013 at Compass
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Appalachian Families Denied Clean Water Travel to Washington to Demand Action
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Appalachian activists gather outside the Washington, D.C., Environmental Protection Agency office to demand an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Elaine Tanner and her partner Jimmy Hall have both experienced, up close and personal, the destruction caused by mountaintop removal... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at Compass
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"Maybe even nothing!" - How We Got Los Angeles Off Coal
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Maybe there has never been and will never be a more important energy decision in my city, Los Angeles, than the one made last week by our city council representatives. In fact, just recently I was having pizza next to Ronni Solomon, a local high voltage organizer for environmental justice... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at The Planet
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"Maybe even nothing!" - How We Got Los Angeles Off Coal
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Maybe there has never been and will never be a more important energy decision in my city, Los Angeles, than the one made last week by our city council representatives. In fact, just recently I was having pizza next to... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2013 at Compass
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Detroit Residents Demand Action in Wake of Marathon Explosion
Detroit resident and Sierra Club volunteer Dr. Delores Leonard speaks at a community press conference last week about the April 27 Marathon oil refinery explosion. More than 60 Southwest Detroit residents and community leaders gathered last week to call on... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Compass
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Ison Rock in Virginia Saved from Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining, For Now
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Mountain lovers everywhere high-fived today when the news came down that the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy has denied a surface mine permit for the Ison Rock Ridge mine in southwest Virginia. While A&G Coal Company, the ones... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Compass
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Indian Court Strikes Down Another Coal Plant
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In justifying its decision to revoke the environmental clearance for a huge 1,050-megawatt coal plant, the Indian National Green Tribunal (NGT) described its original approval as 'smacking of non-application of mind.' I couldn't agree more. In fact, if the world... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Compass
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North Minneapolis Earth Day Event Brings Together Environmental Justice Coalition
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On Earth Day two weeks ago, Sierra Club Minnesota held a great community event in North Minneapolis with coalition partner Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota. Sierra Club Environmental Justice Organizer Karen Monahan has longed worked with the North Minneapolis community to address the disproportionate pollution and health impacts the community... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at The Planet
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More Than One Million Actions for Climate and Clean Energy in 100 Days
This week marked six months since Superstorm Sandy, and it was also the end of our 100 Days of Action for Climate and Clean Energy, which we kicked off when President Obama began his second term. In those 100 days,... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at Compass
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Protect the Great Barrier Reef from Coal Exports
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The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia literally sits in the way of the fossil fuel industry and its massive expansion plans. Many new coal terminals are in the works -- and just one of them, Abbot Point,... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Compass
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New Spate of Coal Bills in Congress Threaten Air, Water, and Public Health
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This week, Senator Mitch McConnell unveiled legislation that would force the Environmental Protection Agency to speed up its permitting process for new coal mines instead of taking the needed time to review these proposed projects for potential polluting runoff. This... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at Compass
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More Than 1,000 Turn Out to Speak Against Keystone XL
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Last week in Grand Island, Nebraska, despite terrible snowy weather, more than 1,000 people showed up for the State Department Keystone XL hearing. People lined up at 7am to get on the testimony list and attendees estimated that fewer than 20 spoke in favor of the massive proposed dirty tar... Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2013 at The Planet
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March Calls for Expansion of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
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This past Saturday hundreds of tribal leaders, clean energy supporters, and faith leaders from across the southwest joined the Moapa Band of Paiutes for a 16-mile "Coal to Clean Energy Walk." The march came on the heels of NV Energy... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Compass
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Two More Victories in the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
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While the fight to end mountaintop removal coal mining is still far from over, we are celebrating today's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on a massive mountaintop removal project, the Spruce Mine. The court... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Compass
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Sierra Club India: Off-Grid Solar Wi-Fi
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It's increasingly clear that our current centralized energy and financial systems fail the poor and, as a result, a sustainable future is distributed. Already we're seeing entrepreneurs making this vision reality by leveraging off-grid mobile phone penetration to deliver distributed... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Compass
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Congress, Don't Sink a Great Energy Efficiency Bill
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Yesterday, senators Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Rob Portman (OH) introduced a bipartisan energy efficiency bill. While the bill is a good one, and should easily pass if Congress worked the way it should, I'm skeptical that it will. Here's why.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Compass
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Amazing Chicago Coal, Clean Air Activist Wins Goldman Environmental Prize
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Every year the Goldman Environmental Prize committee selects an amazing group of winners from around the world to receive what is sometimes called the environmental Nobel prize - and I could not be more thrilled with their pick for North... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Compass
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Environmental Justice -- For Today & For The Future
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Consider these facts: African-American children are six times more likely to die from asthma than other children. Race is the number one factor in predicting the location of toxic waste sites in America, and there is a direct relationship between... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Compass
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Moapa to Lead Powerful, Symbolic Walk from Coal to Clean Energy
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The 2012 Moapa Band of Paiutes "Walk from Coal to Clean Energy." Southern Nevada's Moapa Band of Paiutes are organizing a 16-mile "Walk from Coal to Clean Energy" on April 20, 2013 in concert with Earth Day. This walk will... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Compass
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Coal Ash Bill Fails to Protect Public Health
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A coal ash/slurry impoundment at a mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia. Today, Lisa Evans, Senior Administrative Counsel at Earthjustice, stood up for the 1.54 million children living near coal ash waste sites who have an increased risk of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Compass
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Fukushima And The Japanese Coal Myth
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A while back we wrote a piece clarifying some myths about increased coal consumption in the EU. We did that because the clear trend in the EU is just like the U.S. - a move beyond coal. Now it looks... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Compass
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Will The U.S. Export Import Bank Continue to Fund Dirty Fuels Projects?
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Like a moth to the flame, U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex Im) Chairman Fred Hochberg has an affinity for controversial fossil fuel projects. Instead of shying away from coal plants and mines that destroy the communities, tank local economies, and endanger... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Compass
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Climate and Clean Energy Events Nationwide: Fighting for Environmental Justice in Omaha
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Ever since President Obama invited the American public to a national climate conversation, thousands of Americans have taken him up on that offer by participating in town hall meetings held by the Sierra Club and our allies. I'd like to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Compass
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