Bruce Nilles 
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- Name: Bruce Nilles
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Bruce Nilles is the director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, the largest component of Sierra Club's new Climate Recovery Partnerships. The Beyond Coal Campaign is working to reduce America's over reliance on coal, slash coal's contribution to global warming and other pollution woes, end destructive mining, and secure massive investments in clean energy alternatives. Bruce joined the Sierra Club in 2002. He previously worked as a staff attorney for Earthjustice's San Francisco office, and during the Clinton Administration as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division in Washington D.C. He received his J.D. and B.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
Bruce Nilles’s Posts
Time to Speak Out Against the Biggest Polluters 0
Posted 5 days, 6 hours agoWednesday 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. But of course, this whole issue is huge whether you live in Virginia, Illinois, or anywhere else in the U.S. – it affects everyone.
Right now only a handful of pollution sources, including coal-fired power plants, are responsible for more than half of all of the global warming pollution in the United States. Cleaning these up is a large step towards stopping global warming, so EPA… Read More
Rally at Penn State: Students Taking Lead on Clean Energy 0
Posted 1 week, 4 days agoThis post was co-written by Kim Teplitzky, field coordinator for the Sierra Student Coalition
Today at Penn State University, dozens of students, faculty, and community members rallied in front of university’s coal plant, calling on the university to move beyond coal to clean energy solutions.“Young people have been at the forefront of the greatest social movements in history, including the fledgling environmental movement that brought us Earth Day and put out flaming rivers,” said Penn State junior Chris Billman, who spoke at the event. “We’re working to continue that legacy of creating a better future and the most important… Read More
Another coal plant bites the dust 4
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoMinnesota and South Dakota residents stopped a coal-fired power plant project and prevented about 4.7 million tons of CO2, or the equivalent of the pollution from roughly 670,000 cars, from entering the atmosphere every year.Blasting begins on Coal River Mountain
The True Impact of Coal Mining 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days agoWe learned with sadness this week that blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, site of a long battle between Massey Energy and local residents who want the mountain to be a site for 200 wind turbines instead of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Massey has ignored these pleas, despite research showing that a wind farm would bring more jobs and economic stability to the area – and certainly less environmental destruction.
And while we frequently talk about the impact of mountaintop removal coal mining, a Sierra Club Beyond Coal activity from… Read MoreWatch a movie, fight mountaintop mining
Host a viewing party for the must-see new film “Coal Country” 2
Posted 1 month agoThe powerful new documentary “Coal Country” exposes the devastating effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining. See the movie before the general public does by offering to host a viewing party in your home.
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Actually, the Sierra Club had a petition earlier this month asking the Chamber's member companies to tell the organization to stop its obstruction on global warming action. More than 31,000 people took action on that. Here was the text: ----- Tell the US Chamber of Commerce To Stop Denying Global Warming To US Chamber of Commerce Member Companies, The US Chamber of Commerce is threatening to sue the EPA for accepting the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is real in an effort to put "the science of climate change on trial." The trial is over, case closed. I urge you, as a responsible member of the Chamber of Commerce, to demand that the Chamber drop this desperate tactic to protect polluting energy companies, publicly recognize that climate change is real and acknowledge that action needs to be taken. Please tell the U.S. Chamber they need to speak for the majority of its members who support action on global warming, or your company will resign its membership. -----On Corporations call off the old green battle, but Chamber of Commerce soldiers on [UPDATED] posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 4 Responses