"It's like trying to get all the sand off a beach," said Sarah McCoin, member of the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivors Network, of the TVA's cleanup efforts.
Josh Dorner | Posted 04.20.2009 | Green
Everyone's favorite GOP muppet, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, really managed to outdo himself this week. And considering how things have gone for him so far, that's really saying something.
Josh Dorner | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green
How can an industry that refuses to even acknowledge that it's part of the problem be part of the solution?
Josh Dorner | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green
This Thursday, we'll be delivering photos of folks from around the country, holding car keys (or bike lock keys or even just your house keys), and saying, "EPA is the key to cleaner cars."
Jack Hidary | Posted 03.26.2009 | Green
While clean energy broadly speaking is on the table, the summit is mainly focused on power transmission -- how do you get solar, wind and other renewables to the grid?
Javier Sierra | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green
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.
Josh Dorner | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
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."
Josh Dorner | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green
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.
Jerry Cope | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green
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.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
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.
Javier Sierra | Posted 01.23.2009 | Green
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.
Jake Brewer | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green
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.
Javier Sierra | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green
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.
Josh Dorner | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green
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.
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green
But chocolate made with an eye to its social and environmental impact needn't taste virtuous, as Sierra Club staffers recently found out.
Maura Judkis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green
Among the many celebrating Barack Obama's victory today are environmentalists. Here's what some have to say:
Josh Dorner | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home
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...
Josh Dorner | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
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...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green
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.
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues.
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
While environmentalists and the public at large have been almost singularly focused on energy issues when it comes to the environment and the presiden...
Javier Sierra | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green
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.
Josh Dorner | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green
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."
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 09.05.2008 | Green
At the Organic World Congress in Modena, two researchers for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), Alexandra Perschau and Damien Sanfilippo, list the pr...
Josh Dorner | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business
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.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green