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Ranch Blessing
Greens and developer come to agreement in SoCal |
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08 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:58 PM on 08 May 2008 A long-running disagreement over what should be done with the largest swath of privately owned wilderness in southern California has been settled by a deal between green groups and a developer. Ninety percent of the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch will be conserved, while 26,000 homes will be permitted on the remaining 10 percent. The Center for Biological Diversity, which was not involved in the truce, exp ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, endangered species, grassroots activism, news, NRDC, Sierra Club, sprawl, wilderness (all these topics) |
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This One's for Mom Earth
Sierra Club will sue over new coal plants |
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07 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 May 2008 The Sierra Club is planning lawsuits to halt construction of coal plants in seven states, arguing that the mercury-spewing plants violate the Clean Air Act. Noting that a federal appeals court ruled in February that the Bush administration's mercury regulations were too lax, the green group seeks to require the coal plants to get new state permits meeting tougher emissions standards. "We wan ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, litigation, mercury, news, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Trouble in Paradise
Ouster of Sierra Club's Florida leaders stirs up a storm of controversy |
Emily Gertz |
06 May 2008 |
Grist Feature |
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| Topics: environmental movement, Florida, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Fly on the Wall Street
Finance, energy, and the environment: markets and opportunities |
Emily Gertz |
25 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, energy, politics, renewable energy, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Now We've Heard Udall
Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns |
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24 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics) |
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How cool is your county?
Counties lead on global warming as federal feuding continues |
Josh Dorner |
23 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, local politics, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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From the peanut gallery
Responses to Bush's climate speech |
Grist |
16 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, environmental movement, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation Voters, legislation, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Out of the frying pan ...
Dynegy targeted by Sierra Club in new anti-coal campaign |
Ted Nace |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, coal, energy, grassroots activism, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Steel Yourself
Labor and enviros join up for green-jobs campaign |
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08 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:40 PM on 08 Apr 2008 A new green-jobs campaign has been launched by the Sierra Club, NRDC, the United Steelworkers, and the Blue Green Alliance (itself a project of the Sierra Club and the steelworkers union). The Green Jobs for America campaign, moving forward on the momentum of last month's Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, will be focused in 12 states and will aim to raise public awareness, encourage private investm ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, grassroots activism, green jobs, news, NRDC, renewable energy, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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What would Edward Abbey do?
Bush administration ignoring environmental laws, building border wall anyway |
Glenn Hurowitz |
02 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: animal welfare, extinction, international politics, jackassery, Mexico, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Clorox debacle continues
Sierra Club removes leadership of its Florida chapter |
Guest author |
28 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: business, Florida, green cleaning, greenwashing, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Mind Your Business
NYT offers special section on green biz |
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26 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:36 AM on 26 Mar 2008 The Sierra Club is embarking on its first product endorsement, putting its logo on Clorox's new Green Works cleaning products. Various businesses are aiming to bypass carbon neutrality and move straight on into carbon negativity. These and more stories show up in a New York Times "Business of Green" section Wednesday, which covers the green-biz gamut, from companies trying to manufacture safer ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon neutral, climate, energy, green jobs, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, Sierra Club, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Of legal eagles and ocelots
Enviros file supreme suit to stop border wall |
Glenn Hurowitz |
20 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Mexico, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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News from the Coal Bust
A cascade of news shows that coal is on the ropes |
David Roberts |
05 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Candid Campus
Sierra magazine names top 10 green colleges |
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30 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 3:48 PM on 30 Oct 2007 Perhaps inspired by yours truly, Sierra magazine has named America's top 10 "coolest" green schools -- from 850-student Warren Wilson College in North Carolina to the University of California, which has 214,000 students on various campuses. And that's not even to mention their eight honorable mentions. So take a break and study up. source: Sierra Magazine From the Arch ... |
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| Topics: education, lists, news, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Report Barred
Judge delays work on border fence per insufficient environmental report |
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11 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:40 PM on 11 Oct 2007 The Bush administration tried to "ram" through an insufficient environmental report and must temporarily cease work on a 1.5-mile-long section of fence on the Arizona-Mexico border, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle agreed with the Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club that federal agencies' three-week-long environmental assessment seemed ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, litigation, Mexico, national security, news, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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'The 5% Solution' vs. Sierra Club's '2% Solution'
Your math teacher knew you'd need this stuff someday! |
JMG |
11 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Looking for a new GW metaphor: Canaries exhausted
No more canaries in coal mines, please |
Kit Stolz |
22 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, cutesy, environmental movement, messaging, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Everything's Up To Date in Kansas City Power & Light
Sierra Club makes groundbreaking deal with Midwest utility |
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21 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Everything's Up To Date in Kansas City Power & Light Sierra Club makes groundbreaking deal with Midwest utility If a groundbreaking deal between an electric company and the Sierra Club is any indication, we can all get along. Aww. The green group has agreed to quit a six-year campaign against a new Missouri coal plant being built by Kansas City Power & Light; in return, the utility will cut 6 m ... |
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| Topics: carbon neutral, energy, Missouri, news, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Take Your Pick
Environmentalists pick their sides in key Senate races |
Amanda Griscom Little |
14 Sep 2006 |
Muckraker |
| It's a rare political event that can draw applause from both the White House and environmental groups, but Lincoln Chafee's victory in the Rhode Island Republican primary on Tuesday was just that. Lincoln Chafee. The Bush administration reasons that Chafee -- the most liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently at odds with Bush on hot-button issues from Iraq to tax cuts -- is their on ... |
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| Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Missouri, Montana, Muckraker, Pennsylvania, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, US Senate, Washington (all these topics) |
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March Today, Vote Tomorrow
A dispatch from environment day at the Latino Congreso |
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08 Sep 2006 |
Dispatches |
| Oliver Bernstein is the deputy press secretary for diversity programs for the Sierra Club. He represented the Sierra Club at the Latino Congreso in Los Angeles. Friday, 08 Sep 2006 LOS ANGELES, Calif. "The environment? What's up with that?" This used to be the reaction of many Latinos to hearing about environmental issues, says Roger Rivera, president of the National Hispanic Environmental Council. They ... |
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| Topics: California, Dispatches, elections, environmental justice, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Better Off Ned?
Enviros are split over Lieberman vs. Lamont |
Amanda Griscom Little |
01 Sep 2006 |
Muckraker |
| Progressives around the country cheered when Ned Lamont knocked out Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary last month, but some enviros held their applause. Joe Lieberman. Photo: Paul Morigi/ WireImage Lieberman -- now running as an independent in an effort to hold onto his seat -- has, by most accounts, been a standout leader on environmental protection during his 18 years in the Sen ... |
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| Topics: Connecticut, elections, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, state politics (all these topics) |
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Gator Aid
Florida's biggest conservation land buy also opens way for new development |
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01 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Gator Aid Florida's biggest conservation land buy also opens way for new development Florida's biggest-ever land purchase, 74,000 acres of wild land bought by the state for over $350 million, comes with a catch -- 17,000 acres of adjoining property will belong to developer Syd Kitson, who plans to build a new city. Some environmental groups applaud the deal: The purchase will preserve as wilderness about 80 percent of ... |
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| Topics: Florida, news, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Death of Integrity
In working with Wal-Mart, activist Adam Werbach is abandoning his principles |
John Sellers, Barbara Dudley |
19 Jul 2006 |
Soapbox |
| By John Sellers and Barbara Dudley 19 Jul 2006 In late 2004, Adam Werbach proclaimed that environmentalism was dead due to the movement's unwillingness to connect with ordinary working people and its inability to effectively grapple with the most profound problem the earth has ever faced, climate change. His diagnosis was clear: In order to build the next liberal majority in this country, environ ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Sierra Club, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Club Afoot
Sierra Club sues Pentagon for holding up new wind farms |
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29 Jun 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Club Afoot Sierra Club sues Pentagon for holding up new wind farms The Sierra Club is suing the Defense Department for effectively halting new development of wind farms in the name of homeland security. The suit charges that the department failed to complete a congressionally mandated study on how wind turbines affect military radar by a May 8 deadline; at least 15 new wind projects await comp ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, energy, news, Sierra Club, wind power (all these topics) |
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