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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Texas Needs to Lead the Nation Away From Coal
This week’s post was co-written by Jennifer Powis, Sierra Club Senior Regional Representative in Texas. Texas has the worst air quality in the country and it will take a concrete vision to fix it. Unfortunately, state officials keep permitting coal plants instead of take real steps to clean the air. This week the Texas Commission […]
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How the West is winning against coal
The past month across the western U.S. has been filled with victories against coal.
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Our Orwellian Nightmare: Coal's Low Carbon Pitch
This week, I’m happy to introduce Justin Guay of the Sierra Club’s International Climate Program, who is in Cancun at the international climate negotiations, and who draws our attention in this post to a little-known problem that could spur coal development around the world: In Cancun all eyes are on climate finance and the role […]
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Students call for clean energy, thank EPA
Co-written by Kim Teplitzky of the Sierra Student Coalition. Yesterday, despite some fierce weather in our nation’s capital, members of the Sierra Student Coalition hung bright, colorful pinwheels on Capitol Hill and in front of the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters. (See more photos here) The pinwheels came from thousands of college students across the U.S., […]
