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A Burning Concern

North Carolina governor calls for better regulation of coal ash dumps 0
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) has endorsed legislation that would increase oversight of the state's coal ash dumps, the massive surface impoundments that power companies use to store the toxic waste left over after burning coal.
giving coal the cold shoulder

Stopping Blackstone Coal 1
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Last week when we hit the 100th coal-fired plant abandoned or prevented in the U.S., someone asked me, “What’s next?” My answer came quickly: “It’s time to stop the next 100.”
Just getting started

A milestone: 100th coal plant stopped 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
As of today, 100 coal plants have been defeated or abandoned since the beginning of the coal rush.
Poverty near the “high hazard” coal ash sites 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
The public's right-to-know scored a victory this week when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally released the list of the 44 coal ash sites deemed "high hazard." This comes two weeks after a coalition of organizations including the Sierra Club filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding the release of the list.

Since then we've been crunching some numbers to learn more this list of coal ash storage sites.
You might have noticed: we're getting serious

Sierra Club and 28 other NGOs weigh in on the house; LCV puts it foot down 0
Posted 5 months ago
Reactions to passage of the House climate and energy bill 8
Posted 5 months ago
Many folks are praising the House's passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, but stressing that they want to see it improved in the Senate.
From the Senate to the WV coalfields, a pivotal week for mountaintop removal 1
Posted 5 months ago
This has been a historic and game-changing week in the fight to end mountaintop removal.
How Waxman-Markey tackles climate change by saving forests 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
One of the little-known ingredients of the deal that allowed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, H.R. 2454 to pass the Energy and Commerce committee was a breakthrough on protections for the world's vanishing tropical forests.
Coal ash sites kept secret, while industry works to prevent regulations 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
If you lived near a dump site where the hazardous waste was so toxic it could increase your cancer risk to as high as a staggering 1 in 50, wouldn't you want to know about it? What if there was one near your child's school, but you had no way of knowing about it because the list of the most dangerous sites was being kept secret? Well, it turns out there are dozens of such sites across the nation, and our government is refusing to tell us where they are.
Chevron agrees to lobby with Sierra Club to end coal subsidies 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Mixed bag on mountaintop-removal mining decision from Obama sdministration 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
John Muir, Green Building Consultant

With green home venture, Sierra Club mixes profits with passion 4
Posted 6 months ago
One of the nation's oldest and most-respected environmental organizations has launched a for-profit online venture as a one-stop shop for information and services to green up your lifestyle and decarbonize your home.
Salmon, polar bears, and crabs, oh my!

‘Regular people’ cheer on climate action at Seattle rally 1
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago
At a U.S. EPA hearing on climate change in Seattle on Thursday, hundreds of citizens urged the agency to fight climate change.
Sierra Club vows to “strengthen this bill”; House GOP vows to kill it

Obama praises climate deal 0
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago
President Obama praised House Democrats for “extraordinary progress” in their negotiations on global warming and energy legislation.
Bootleg Tapes for WV Coal Association Ringtone Department

Sierra Club parodies the worst song ever recorded about coal 0
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
After the West Virginia Coal Association released a series of the worst cell-phone ringtone songs about coal ever recorded, the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign went beyond the call of duty to provide real video images of the horrific reality of mountaintop removal in West Virginia for the coal songs.
Endanger? I barely know her

EPA’s climate finding ticks off industry, energizes enviros and congressional leaders 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Business groups, environmental orgs, and politicians weigh in on EPA's determination that greenhouse gases endanger humans.
Sunny City Up

America’s first solar city, from a former NFL player 7
Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago
A Florida developer announced plans to build a 19,000-home solar-powered city near Fort Meyers, the housing collapse be damned.
Sierra Club partners up to make green ... luggage? 1
Posted 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Q&A with a board candidate I wish I could vote for 10
Posted 9 months ago
Anti-coal activists get a boost from Tennessee ash spill and other mishaps 9
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago