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Hundreds Tell EPA to Regulate Global Warming Pollution
May 20th, 2009Bruce Nilles is on vacation this week. This post is by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. On Monday, close to 300 Sierra Club members and activists, clergy and people of faith, scientists, health professionals, and even a former 007 turned out for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) global [...]
EPA Hearings and House Parties – Taking Care of Coal?
May 14th, 2009This week’s blog post is co-written by Mary Anne Hitt, deputy director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. This week, friends of big oil and coal fired one of their first shots across the bow of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s power to set limits on global warming pollution. The frenzy [...]
Good and Bad News About Coal (Plus Video)
May 7th, 2009Just like the blog title states, this week we saw both sides of the fight for clean energy. I’ll start with the bad news – which comes straight from Kansas. (And stay with me til the bottom of the post, when I’ll share something both laughable and shocking) This week new Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson [...]
Helping Henry Waxman Get the Job Done
April 23rd, 2009This is the weekly post from Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. Two weeks ago U.S. Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), a longtime clean energy and public health champion, released a discussion draft outlining his ambitious plans to combat global warming and create jobs. (Hearings are currently being held for this draft [...]
EPA: Carbon Dioxide Endangers Human Health
April 17th, 2009Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a danger to public health and welfare and are subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. This is a significant and historic decision with wide-ranging effects, not the least of which is the regulation of carbon emissions [...]
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