For years the advocates of trade giveaways like NAFTA and the WTO have argued that they wanted a "rules-based" set of global trading regulations. It's a good idea. Unfortunately, they haven't delivered.
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused t...
This story comes courtesy of California Watch By Sarah Terry-Cobo A Sierra Club mailroom worker combing through the arriving mail at the gro...
One of the leading environmental groups in the country offered its most forceful opposition yet to a leading compromise on climate change legislation,...
And so we learn that even beyond the human and environmental health damage the coal industry does, the economic damage is there as well.
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental advocates from around the world gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week and resolved that, ...
As we remember the first Earth Day happening 40 years ago, it's also worth spending some time today thinking about our eco-heroes, too.
We recruited six young adults from Leadership Excellence, to blind taste an array of commercially produced freeze-dried fare. Our volunteers sampled 15 entrees and five desserts and scored them on a scale of 1 to 10.
19th century energy sources have no place in a clean-energy economy. Coal belongs in the same category as oil -- dirty and dangerous energy sources we must phase out as soon as possible.
In Washington, it's an article of faith that what the National Rifle Association wants, the National Rifle Association gets. But people are pushing back against the entrenched culture of special favors.
The Sierra Club is a marquee name that has indeed gone for the green: cash. Environmental activists should carefully examine the way in which the organization is operating.
Jane thinks that somehow we can't criticize the president, nor challenge him to do a better job than he has so far. We can, and we are. So look a little deeper, Jane, and join us. I'll even waive your membership fee.
Since our Beyond Coal Campaign is also committed to fighting dirty fuels such as liquid coal, we're just as committed to stopping the latest dirty fue...
The Sierra Club's ability to successfully advocate for environmental causes doesn't depend on access to politicians. But they have opted for an "inside" game, and have thus dropped the ball on pressuring officials from the outside.
This blog post was written by Angela Adrar, Lance Rios and myself (Kety Esquivel). "As a Colombiana naturalized in the US, going to Cochabamba for t...
Reps. Markey and Inslee did a phenomenal job taking the coal industry to task for their global warming doubts and for the industry's accusations that the government is assaulting them via regulation.
Today will see a major vote in the U.S. Senate - one that could hugely benefit Big Oil and Big Coal if it passes.Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) will in...
If the President isn't going to help the rich wildlife of the Gulf Coast, and those designated to save the animals are fighting a modern war with ancient weapons, what are we going to do? The answer: anything we can.
There is bad news for clean energy and our planet today, as the United States fails to follow its own global warming guidelines.
Scroll down for CNN video It's official: The University of Colorado in Boulder outranks Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and... well, every other sc...
Click above photo for the NY Times' slideshow. A Video and Petition: Take Action Can We Really Move Beyond Petroleum? A Sierra Club video and peti...
This post was co-written by Nachy Kanfer, Associate Field Organizer for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign in Ohio.We regularly dispute Big Coal w...
"Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original." Yves Behar, speaking at TED For years I worked as a creative director in advertising...
Do factories, incinerators, and waste treatment plants go where poor people live? Or do poor people end up living in residential areas clustered around these places because they're poor?
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration would open areas from Delaware to Florid...
