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Weekly Mulch: Off-shore drilling, auto emissions, mountaintop mining from Obama administration

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration would open areas from Delaware to Florid...

Coal Industry Unveils Disturbing iPhone Application

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bruce Nilles

We've had some disturbing news come to us from the coal industry. It's appropriate that it comes to us on April Fool's Day, as it is a coal industry i...

Los Angeles City Council Has the Chance to Prepare for the Coming Storm of Increasingly Expensive Coal

Bill Corcoran | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Bill Corcoran

What is unique about this particular cloud hovering above Navajo Generating Station is that this time, it isn't just pollution. This cloud is a storm of financial calamity heading right for LA.

Coal: Good News, and An Opportunity for More

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Bruce Nilles

I've got two good news pieces this week - and one issue we need your help on. Last week our Michigan Chapter and everyone who loves clean air and clea...

Weekly Mulch: Clock Ticking for Climate Change Legislation

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Seven months out from the midterms, electoral anxieties are hampering potential climate change legislation. ...

LA Pulls Plug on Costly Coal: Like Taking 11 Million Cars Off Road

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Jeff Biggers

Villaraigosa's clean energy initiative recognizes the massive and largely overlooked costs of dirty coal on his local constituents -- and the nation -- and the need to move to a coal-free future.

How the West Is Winning Against Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bruce Nilles

There is so much good news coming out of the western U.S. these days on coal and clean energy, from Colorado to Los Angeles.

Four New Ways to Save Paper

Avital Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Avital Andrews

There are many reasons to save paper, perhaps the foremost of which is that much of climate change is caused by deforestation. So here's what you can do:

Leaders Needed to Move LA Beyond Coal and Into the Sunlight

Bill Corcoran | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Bill Corcoran

When it comes to reforming the way Los Angeles gets its power, sunlight is useful in more ways than one.

Rush to Judgment

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Michael Brune

According to Rush Limbaugh, the Sierra Club and other "greeniacs" forced BP to drill far offshore. We can't let Rush Limbaugh or anyone else distract us from the truth. BP is to blame for the disaster playing out before us, and BP must pay.

Rush Limbaugh (AUDIO): 'When Do We Ask The Sierra Club To Pick Up The Tab For This Leak?'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Rush Limbaugh picked an unlikely target to blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on his show yesterday: "When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up t...

Stop Government Funding of Coal

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Bruce Nilles

This post was co-written by Bruce Nilles and Mark Kresowik, Director and Corporate Accountability and Finance Representative, respectively, for the Si...

Chicago's Coal-Free Future: Clean Power Coalition Lights the Way

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Jeff Biggers

Consider this: The Fisk Generation Station in Pilsen, which has spewed nearly 50,000 tons of toxic pollution over the past three years, was built before the invention of the Model T.

Sleepless in San Francisco: My First Day With the Sierra Club

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Michael Brune

As effective as the Sierra Club has been, we need to do our best work in the years ahead. Looking forward, here are a few projects we want to complete.

Passing the Ankus

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Carl Pope

For eighteen years I've had the privilege of serving as the Sierra Club's director. Today, I step aside for a new role, as Chairman, with Michael Brune, formerly of Rain Forest Action Network, replacing me.

Exposing the Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Bruce Nilles

This post was co-written by Mark Kresowik, Corporate Accountability and Finance Representative for the Sierra Club.The idea of corporate responsibilit...

Oil Disaster Doesn't Mean We Should Switch to Other Dirty Fuels

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bruce Nilles

The BP oil disaster should be a turning point in our energy policy here in the U.S. We should not keep relying on dirty energy sources. We have available technologies which would allow us to get off oil. It's time to make the switch.

Ensuring Coal's Future (to Kill)? Questions for Sen. John Kerry from the Coal Wars Frontlines

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jeff Biggers

In a line: Kerry knows that coal kills. So, are we going to phase out our deadly old coal-fired plants (and deadly coal mining) by a certain date -- or just add more regulations?

Welcome to San Francisco: A Coal-Free City Eco-Tourism Campaign? (Free Postcards!)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jeff Biggers

While Los Angeles and Dehli have announced their intentions to become coal-free cities, the Bay Area-based Pacific General and Electric company still apparently gets eight percent of its juice from coal.

On March 15, Take Action to Stop Dumping Mine Waste Into Our Water

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Bruce Nilles

This post was co-written by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign.There is nothing clean about destroying homes and ...

A Giant Falls

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Carl Pope

The Avenue of the Giants runs through the greatest remaining old-growth forest of redwood trees on Earth. Last weekend, one of the giants fell: former Sierra Club President Dr. Edgar Wayburn.

Mixed Reviews: Our Trail Mix Taste Test Proves To Be Divisive

Avital Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Avital Andrews

No one knows exactly when humans first paired nuts with dried fruit and thought, "Gorp! I must have this as I journey forth afoot."

The Newest Old Business Trend

Avital Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Avital Andrews

Tithing -- offering a percentage of income for a cause -- dates back to the Old Testament. And lately its popularity is surging in the business world.

Weekly Mulch: New bills and old money

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Climate legislation is returning to the Senate's docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this ve...

Stop the Attacks on the Clean Air Act

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Bruce Nilles

Assaults on the Clean Air Act in order to protect polluter profits is not only ridiculous, but they are also very dangerous.