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Fighting Coal Ash, Bureaucracy and Confusion 2 Sep 2010, 8:00 pm

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. As I have mentioned on this blog before, the Environmental Protection Agency is currently holding public hearings at sites around the country to…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

New Report Reveals Widespread Toxic Coal Ash Contamination 27 Aug 2010, 1:45 pm

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. Power industry lobbyist Jim Roewer: “Wasn’t a problem.” Leslie Stahl: “Well, it was a problem, but we just didn’t know it.” This excerpt…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

The Reign of King Coal is Ending 18 Aug 2010, 12:01 am

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. Contrary to the impression you may have been left with after reading a recent Associated Press piece about the future (or lack thereof)…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

Thousands of Sierra Clubbers Demand U.S. Bank to Stop Coal Abroad 13 Aug 2010, 8:12 pm

7,769 Sierra Club members told the Export-Import Bank that instead of financing dirty power projects abroad, it should be positioning U.S. companies to lead in a competitive clean technology market that can create thousands more jobs in the US. These…

Source: Compass | The Sierra Club

Clean Energy News of Note 11 Aug 2010, 6:06 pm

It’s the summer doldrums, but there’s still been a lot of clean energy and dirty energy news hitting the wires out there. Here are some highlights. First up we have a NY Times article about using “brownfields” as clean energy…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

Burning Coal + Hot Days = Unhealthy Air Warnings 10 Aug 2010, 5:26 pm

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. Yesterday and today are code orange unhealthy air alert days in the Washington, DC, region where I live. The 95+ degree temperatures and…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

Take Action: Some In Congress Spreading Misinformation About Coal Ash 6 Aug 2010, 2:54 pm

This is the weekly blog post from Bruce Nilles, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. Coal ash contains numerous poisonous chemicals, including arsenic, selenium, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, boron, thallium, and aluminum. So why are some members of…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

Is the BP Oil Disaster Cleaned Up or Not? 5 Aug 2010, 3:16 pm

Yesterday the U.S. government reported that around 75% of BP’s oil disaster in the Gulf had been cleaned up, dispersed, burnt, or diluted and the rest poses little additional risk. That still leaves more than 50 gallons out there, but…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer

Portland Launches Fifth Phase of Retrofit Pilot Program 3 Aug 2010, 5:32 pm

This is a guest post from Chip Gaul, intern for the Sierra Club’s Good Jobs Retrofit campaign. During the peak days of summer, Portland’s richly diverse Cully Neighborhood enjoyed a cool breeze as residents gathered for a neighborhood ice cream…

Source: Compass | Energy Intern

Climate Ride 2010 Will Hit the West Coast 3 Aug 2010, 3:18 pm

While previous years had it coming down the East Coast and into Washington, DC, this year’s Brita Climate Ride will hit the West Coast. The Climate Ride is a huge bike ride aimed at supporting action on climate change. Here…

Source: Compass | Heather Moyer