Know a college student? As this holiday weekend rolls in and many of you might have college kids coming back to your home with huge bags [...]
The Thanksgiving holiday is a great time to share stories. My favorite radio program, National Public Radio’s Story Corps Project, is hosting a National Day of Listening this Friday, November 27th. They are encouraging people to sit down, interview family members, and record their responses. The Sierra Club is also providing [...]
By: Julian Carmona, Intern for the Global Warming and Energy Team
The Chicago public hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's Big Polluters (tailoring) rule is now underway, and we've got folks tweeting from inside. Follow the #bigpolluters hashtag all day on Twitter to stay up to date on it all. Also, later today we'll have a nice wrap-up from [...]
Our folks are on the ground Tweeting from the EPA's second hearing on their proposed "Big Polluters" rule that would regulate pollution from large polluters - in Chicago, Il. You can contribute to the discussion through Twitter using the hashtag #bigpolluters
<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=7e54a17f4d" >LiveBlog: Big Polluters EPA Hearing - Virginia</a> [...]This post was written by Jeff Speir, apprentice for the Sierra Club Clean Energy Solutions Campaign.
Following in the wake of the consumer, economic, and environmental success of the "Cash for Clunkers" program this summer, the Obama administration is considering using stimulus [...]That's a photo of Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifying at today's Environmental Protection Agency public hearing on the Big Polluters rule. We'll have more of a wrap-up blog post tomorrow, once the Chicago hearing is complete (today's [...]
Our folks are on the ground Tweeting from the EPA's first of two hearing on their proposed "Big Polluters" rule that would regulate pollution from large polluters. You can contribute to the discussion through Twitter using the hashtag #bigpolluters
<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=7e54a17f4d" >LiveBlog: Big Polluters EPA Hearing - Virginia</a> [...]This is the weekly post from Bruce Nilles, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
Wednesday and Thursday of this week are big days if you live in Arlington, Virginia, or Chicago, Illinois. Those are the two days of public hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Big Polluters” rule. [...]
By:Julian Carmona, Intern for the Global Warming and Energy Team
A report out this week from the U.S. Green Building Council says that "(d)espite a challenging economic outlook, green building will support 7.9 million U.S. jobs and pump $554 billion into the American economy – including $396 billion in wages – over the next four years (2009-2013)..."
Phew! The report [...]
Tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 10th) we'll have two of our folks tweeting from the two very important Senate hearings. Justin Guay, the apprentice for our global warming and energy team, will be twittering with the @SierraClubLive from the Senate Finance Committee hearing on climate legislation and jobs. You can [...]
There is a shocking article in today's Miami Herald about a town in the Dominican Republic being plagued by terrible birth defects. The residents claim all the birth issues are being caused by coal ash that was dumped nearby by a U.S. company. The company denies it.
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We’re celebrating great news out of Minnesota and South Dakota this week:
“After almost five years of planning and permitting efforts, the participating utilities in the proposed Big Stone II Project announced…Monday that they will end their [...]
There's been a lot of news out about various aspects of the coal industry lately, so I wanted to share the links to get it out there. These are in no particular order, but all are interesting.
First up, last Friday the newspaper Business Lexington in Kentucky published side-by-side editorials on [...]
Saw this video today over on the "It's Getting Hot in Here" blog and had to share. Students at Washington University in St. Louis got tired of seeing the influence coal execs were having on their campus and decided to hold a flash mob protest at an energy summit [...]
By Justin Guay, apprentice for the Sierra Club Global Warming and Energy Team
Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee hearings held on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act last week have built upon the Kerry/Graham op-ed in the New York [...]
It's sad, but it's also not a surprise: Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are boycotting the mark-up of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. We released our thoughts on what we think the Republicans are doing instead of taking part in the [...]
Compass Team, Heather Moyer, Nithin Coca, Allison Forbes, Christina Yagjian
