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Coal is Dirty. Period.

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Javier Sierra

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.

Lisa Jackson: Music to My Ears

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

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."

WATCH: Celebs Thank Obama, Talk Substance on Energy, Global Warming

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

2009-01-12-brosnan.jpgThe 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.

Tim DeChristopher Reinvents the Greenbuck in Utah

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jerry Cope

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.

ACORN Helps Lead Progressive Action to Pass A Stimulus Package

Bertha Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Bertha Lewis

Because of reality facing America's low- and moderate-income communities, ACORN members and their neighborhoods function as the canaries in our nation's economic coal mine.

My Letter to the Other Santa Claus

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Javier Sierra

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.

"This Is Reality" Takes On the Clean Coal Lie

Jake Brewer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Jake Brewer

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.

Fat Cows and Thin Cows

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Javier Sierra

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.

Obama Hits Green Homerun With Remarks to Govs on Energy, Climate

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

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.

Ethical Chocolate Worth Craving

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josie Garthwaite

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

Environmental Groups Congratulate Obama on Victory

Maura Judkis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Maura Judkis

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

Fired Up and Ready to Go--Thousands Mobilize in NH

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Josh Dorner

Yesterday the Sierra Club's 2008 election magical mystery tour with Executive Director Carl Pope and Political Director Cathy Duvall took us to New Ha...

Sierra Club RAW: Thanks, but no thanks, Senator McCain

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Josh Dorner

John McCain's campaign has been marked by gimmick after gimmick. We had the gas tax holiday--denounced by over 230 leading economists, including 4 Nob...

Morgan Freeman on Disaster Preparedness

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josie Garthwaite

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.

"No Comment" from McCain on Bush's Evisceration of Endangered Species Act

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

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

Something Is Rotten at the EPA

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Javier Sierra

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.

Sierra Club RAW: Bachmann Drilling Overdrive (And Other Assorted Idiocy)

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

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

Sierra Club RAW: Last Week's Campaign McMeltdown

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

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."

Green Edge 6: The Case for Organic Cotton

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
John Tepper Marlin

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

Sierra Club RAW: John McCain, Big Oil's Bestie as Record Profits (and Campaign Cash) Roll In

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Josh Dorner

After hitting a real gusher of campaign cash from Big Oil, what does McCain propose to do about high gas prices and obscene oil company profits? Why, he wants to give Big Oil a Texas-sized tax cut.

A Drilled Reputation

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Javier Sierra

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.

Sierra Club RAW: McCain's Greatest Energy Misses Summer Tour

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Josh Dorner

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?

Stephen Colbert Rails On Treehuggers--Especially Carl Pope

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Olivia Zaleski

"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."

Styrofoam Statue Of Liberty Draws Outrage From Environmentalists

Earthfirst | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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...

Carl Pope, Van Jones Discuss What Drives Green Revolution

bravenation.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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...