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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Five Years After Tragic Disaster in Tennessee, Still No Coal Ash Safeguards
This coming Sunday, Dec. 22, marks five years since the Kingston Coal Plant’s ash dam in Tennessee ruptured, sending more than a billion gallons of toxic sludge into homes, onto farmland, and into the Emory and Clinch Rivers in Roane County – one of the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Five years later, we’re […]
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What’s At Stake: Clean Air and Public Health in our Highest Courts on December 10
This Tuesday, December 10, our nation’s highest courts will hear two landmark Clean Air Act cases that have big implications for public health. First and foremost, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule. Back in 2011, EPA unveiled this update of a critical public health protection […]
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Will Your Tax Dollars Fund a Highway that’s a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in Disguise?
Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive practice on its own – but what happens when you add in coal companies making deals with […]
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#ClimateThanks: 5 Things I’m Thankful for this Year
This Thanksgiving, people around the country are using the hashtag #ClimateThanks on Twitter to share who and what they’re thankful for in the fight against climate disruption. As director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, I have the great honor of working with people across the U.S. who are winning big climate victories week […]
