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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Big Coal Bullying Prompts University to Destroy Artwork
Bullied by coal companies and their allies in the Wyoming legislature, the University of Wyoming earlier this year caved to threats that millions of dollars in funding were in jeopardy if they didn’t remove an outdoor art installation on the university campus that Big Coal deemed offensive. The sculpture, “Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes […]
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Uniting Against Coal Exports in the Pacific Northwest
A coal train in the Pacific Northwest. Photo by Paul K. Anderson. There’s been a lot of buzz about coal exports lately, but if I was a betting woman, I’d say the smart money is on these coal industry pipe dreams never becoming a reality. That’s because local communities that would receive the brunt of […]
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Powerful New Series Reveals the True Cost of Coal
The first time I watched this is powerful new video, it stopped me in my tracks. It’s the debut video for our latest project, a photo series from Sierra magazine called “The Cost of Coal.” I think you’ll agree — the stories and images of these families who are facing the loss of their homes, […]
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LA Chooses Clean Energy Over Coal
This week, we won a major victory when the Los Angeles City Council approved the L.A. Department of Water and Power’s plan to invest in clean energy, rather than continue to ship customer’s money out of state to buy coal (LA shipped $500 million out of state last year alone). This move will create more […]
