New Data Shows Collapse Of Coal Imminent, Sparks Climate Hope
According to the latest Boom & Bust report from Greenpeace, Sierra Club and CoalSwarm, 2016 saw monumental drops in every stage of coal project development.
According to the latest Boom & Bust report from Greenpeace, Sierra Club and CoalSwarm, 2016 saw monumental drops in every stage of coal project development.
The suit come in the wake one of the strongest earthquakes in state history.
Oklahoma City, OK – Sierra Club and Public Justice have filed a federal lawsuit against three energy companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in Oklahoma, alleging that production waste from
While the protests over deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown refuse to stand down, leading environmentalists, labor protesters and others show their solidarity saying: “These issues are not separate.”
With the nation's streets still filled with protesters and a plan for thousands to march on Washington brewing, the call for justice for Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and other black victims of police violence has only grown stronger. In the days and weeks since two grand juries failed to indict the police officers who killed the two men, expressions of
The report mixed potentially good and bad news for opponents of the pipeline, which would bring a particularly heavy, dirty form of crude oil from “tar sands” deposits to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
WASHINGTON — Following the State Department’s release of a highly anticipated final environmental assessment on the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, environmentalists have undertaken a renewed process of organizing opposition to the project.
Carey L. Biron is Washington correspondent for MintPress and for Inter Press News focusing on issues of equity and accountability, environmental and corporate regulation, and international development and governance from Capitol Hill. Carey spent much of the past 15 years covering South and Southeast Asia as a radio and print reporter and editor.
Leading green groups warn president against deal-making with Canadians on tar sands pipeline.
Amid rumors that the Obama administration might try to cut an emissions deal with Canada in order to justify approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, leaders from 25 US environmental groups—backed by millions of members and at least 75,000 individuals willing to engage incivil disobedience—warned the president on Tuesday that such a deal
One group successfully staved off a silica sand mine and imposed a moratorium on similar projects.
Allamakee County Protectors founding member Robert Nehman never considered himself much of an activist, yet he and his group of fellow grassroots advocates are being recognized by the Sierra Club for their successful fight to keep frac sand mining out of their backyards.
The Allamakee County Protectors weren’t
Members of both groups gathered in Georgia to celebrate a decision made by Georgia’s leading utility company to increase its use of solar power.
Tea Party conservatives and Sierra Club environmentalists are pairing together in an unlikely coalition united in favor of solar power.
On July 11, members of both groups gathered in Georgia to celebrate a decision made by Georgia’s leading utility company to increase its use of solar power, an energy mode that’s quickly becoming a