Articles by Mary Anne Hitt
Mary Anne Hitt is director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, which is working to eliminate coal's contribution to global warming and repower the nation with clean energy.
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Celebrating a Huge Offshore Wind Victory in Maryland
The winds of change brought some great progress to Maryland this week when the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013 passed through both houses of the legislature. The offshore wind bill has been championed from the start by Governor Martin O’Malley, who stands ready to sign the bill into law. This is a huge […]
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Standing Up for Clean Water When States Won’t
Imagine that you’ve grown up in a beautiful, hilly countryside near many streams where you played and fished as a child. Now, years later, you can’t even let your own kids or grandkids play in those same waterways because of pollution from a nearby mountaintop-removal coal mine. Such is the reality for thousands of people […]
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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Poisons Appalachia’s Waterways
I remember the first time I saw a mountaintop-removal coal mining site – Kayford Mountain in southern West Virginia. Those images have never left my mind – a barren landscape where there was once lush forest. And right around the destroyed site, homes where people were trying to live despite having the world blown up […]
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Montana and Minnesota: Coal vs. Clean Energy
It’s easy to get excited about the future coming off our recent announcement that we’re half-way to our goal of retiring one-third of the nation’s coal fleet. Seeing those successes city-by-city and state-by-state is inspiring, but it also is a frequent example of how different two places can be when it comes to clean energy […]
