By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration would open areas from Delaware to Florid...
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...
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.
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...
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Seven months out from the midterms, electoral anxieties are hampering potential climate change legislation. ...
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.
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:
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 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...
This post was co-written by Bruce Nilles and Mark Kresowik, Director and Corporate Accountability and Finance Representative, respectively, for the Si...
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.
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.
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.
This post was co-written by Mark Kresowik, Corporate Accountability and Finance Representative for the Sierra Club.The idea of corporate responsibilit...
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.
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?
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.
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 ...
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.
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...