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Blogging Begins from New Sierra Club Beyond Coal Director Mary Anne Hitt
Today I am officially turning over the blog reins to Mary Anne Hitt, the new Director of the Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign. She will now be blogging weekly on important coal and clean energy issues – so I urge you to bookmark her blog. Her first post is up now. Mary Anne has been […]
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Energy Department: U.S. could store CO2 underground for the next 5,700 years
While CCS remains highly controversial and untried, partnerships are investigating areas in the U.S. and Canada for injecting billions of metric tons of greenhouse gases into underground geologic formations.
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I'm transparent why can't you be
This is the second in a series of video blogs from the global warming negotiations in Mexico (see the first one on the mood at the beginning of the global warming negotiations). It covers what happened in the second day of the two week negotiation session. The real sub-story from yesterday was around transparency – both […]
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Concentrating solar thermal power, distributed
Solar thermal power -- or concentrating solar power -- can be done in a distributed fashion.
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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., […]
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A possible win during the lame duck?
Sen. Maria Cantwell has taken an initiative, supported by 26 other senators, that is an immediate, lame-duck-session issue. It has to do with the extension of a program, the “Section 1603 Treasury Grant Program,” that has played an important role over the last couple of years to build the renewable energy industry. See the link here for more […]
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Coal is the savior of the human race
How wonderful is coal? Turns out, it's going to end global poverty!
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On your 40th anniversary, thank you EPA
Forty years ago today, the Environmental Protection Agency was created. It’s fitting that the anniversary falls just one week after Thanksgiving, because every American from every state should be grateful for the Agency’s work. Consider that by 1990, the EPA’s actions had prevented 205,000 premature American deaths, 189,000 cardiovascular hospitalizations and 18 million child respiratory […]
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Richard Goldman, founder of the Goldman Prize, dies at age 90
The planet lost a great and generous hero on Monday when philanthropist Richard N. Goldman died at the age of 90.
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Future at risk on a hotter planet
We are altering the earth’s climate, setting in motion trends we do not always understand with consequences we cannot anticipate.
