The coal industry has been behaving irresponsibly for decades. Each year, coal-fired power plants cause 21,000 hospitalizations, 38,000 heart attacks and 24,000 unnecessary deaths.

EPA Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson was in the dock before the Senate today and I agree with Barbara Boxer that Jackson's answers to many questions were "music to my ears."

The Sierra Club's BFFs in Hollywood got together to make this video to congratulate Obama and thank him for the extraordinary leadership he has already demonstrated on environmental issues.

Deforestation, chemical pollution in the world's oceans, biological diversity, species extinction, and greenhouse gas emissions are detrimental to life on Earth as we know it.

Dear President-Elect Obama: The legacy that awaits you under the White House chimney resembles more a lump of coal than a welcome present, which leads me to my first wish for you.

Big Coal has spent more than Tobacco did making us think cigarettes were ok, to make us believe the "Saudi Arabia of coal" - the United States - will lead a clean, prosperous future.

President-Elect Barack Obama owes his title not only to quite possibly the best presidential campaign in history, but also to the Latino vote. More than two thirds of us voted for him.

President-Elect Obama's remarks should quiet any remaining suspicions that his campaign pledges were merely fleeting campaign promises to be discarded after Election Day.

But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.

Among the many celebrating Barack Obama's victory today are environmentalists. Here's what some have to say:

Sierra spoke with Freeman about PlanIt Now, a nonprofit he founded after Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada in 2004 that works to help people in the Gulf Coast and Caribbean ready their families and businesses for big storms.

While environmentalists and the public at large have been almost singularly focused on energy issues when it comes to the environment and the presiden...

The EPA is charged with keeping our communities safe from environmental degradation, something we Latinos know first hand. Sixty-six percent of us live dangerously close to a toxic site.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues.

The McCain campaign visited the Enrico Fermi nuclear generating station in Michigan -- the site of a 1966 partial meltdown that resulted in the coining of the phrase "China Syndrome."

At the Organic World Congress in Modena, two researchers for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Alexandra Perschau and Damien Sanfilippo, list the pr...

The environmental movement calls on McCain to support the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008, which would repeal subsidies from Big Oil and increase funding for renewables, efficiency and conservation.

Since McCain has already taken his misbegotten road show to the sites of some our nation's greatest energy misses, we wonder if maybe next he'll stop by Three Mile Island?

"Have you ever gone all the way with a tree?" . . . one of several hard-hitting, inappropriate and consistently hilarious questions Stephen Colbert throws at Huffington Post Green's star blogger and Sierra Club executive director, Carl Pope. Colbert aired an interview with Pope this past Monday night, during his sidesplitting fake-news show, "The Colbert Report."

Perhaps it's a fitting tribute to a country that wore the 'Biggest Polluter' crown for so long: a 130-foot, 50,000-lb replica of the Statue of Liberty...

In any other profession, Carl Pope might be considered a "company man." He has worked loyally and tirelessly in the name of the Sierra Club for thirt...