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Sierra Club admits taking money to promote natural gas over coal

February 7, 2012 by Rod Adams
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On February 2, 2012, the Sierra Club allowed a Time magazine blog to break a poorly kept “secret” whose existence had threatened to get out of hand. In a post titled Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why They Stopped Bryan Walsh described how one of the oldest, largest, and best endowed... [read more]

Sierra Club’s Brune: We’re Stopping Coal

October 24, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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Michael Brune

  “We are starting to create the ecological U-turn that David Brower talked about, decades ago. On coal, it’s dramatic. We’ve seen a halt to the coal rush.” “Primarily because of regulations (from)  the Obama administration, we can now project a future where our oil consumption will decline.” “It’s not sufficient to address the... [read more]

When Changing A Lightbulb Isn’t Enough…

September 1, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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   What have you done lately about climate change? In the last two weeks, about 700 Americans – with more to come – have been arrested in front of the White House, calling on President Obama to block the construction of the $7 billion, 1700-mile Keystone pipeline project that will bring Canadian tar sands oil to largest... [read more]

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg vs. Big Coal

July 22, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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  Sierra Club's Mike Brune, Rep. Jim Moran and Michael Bloomberg In a gutsy move, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg today announced that his Bloomberg Philanthropies has pledged $50 million to the Sierra Club to fight coal plants. He didn’t do it quietly, either. Bloomberg chartered a boat to take about 100 Sierra Club activists,... [read more]

Art Wharton - What about external costs of energy technologies? Part 2

December 29, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
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Where does waste = external costs? Dry cask storage area (Photo: NRC) Part 1 of this article, which appeared here on December 28, made the point that the nuclear power industry sequesters its nuclear “waste.” The same statement of high standard cannot be said for applications of combustion, whether it be from coal, petroleum products, or... [read more]

Dan Yurman - Exelon to close Oyster Creek early

December 16, 2010 by Joseph Koblich
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Deal with New Jersey will let it operate for 10 more years without having to build cooling towers No one is happy with the decision by Exelon (NYSE:EXC) to close its 615-MW boiling water reactor at Oyster Creek in New Jersey. The company made the announcement on December 8 that it would shut down the plant in 2019, just halfway... [read more]

Cracks in wall for California’s ban on nuclear energy

October 28, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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The potential for nuclear energy is not lost on some of the state’s political and business leaders For the past three decades the State of California has banned the development of new nuclear reactors inside its borders. Green groups led by the Sierra Club have pulverized any effort to over turn the ban like Viking warriors taking a... [read more]

Sierra Club Dispatching Campaign Workers to Help in 29 Pivotal Races

October 5, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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The nation's oldest environmental organization on Monday announced it was throwing its considerable weight behind 29 "environmental champions" in the upcoming November elections. "Sierra Club's thousands of volunteers will be pounding the pavement, working the phone lines, and talking with their friends and neighbors to help get... [read more]

JP Morgan Chase’s coal problem

May 4, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Do we really want to keep blasting the tops off mountains, destroying forests and dumping the rubble into waterways, in order to extract and burn coal that is messing up the climate? For now, the answer to that question is yes, despite vigorous efforts by environmentalists and activists in Appalachia to stop mountaintop removal mining.... [read more]

Fortune Magazine's Brainstorm Green - Nuclear Conundrum Panel Discussion

April 25, 2010 by Rod Adams
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During the period between April 12-14, Fortune Magazine sponsored a conference titled Brainstorm Green that brought together a wide range of opinion leaders, environmentalists and business groups. One of the sessions at the conference included a discussion about nuclear energy that featured two representatives from companies seeking... [read more]

Answer to Carl Pope at the Sierra Club

March 7, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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Ignoring the fundamentals of electricity supply won’t change reality One of America’s top environmental leaders thinks expanding loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants is a bad idea. Carl Pope, (right) the Executive Director of the Sierra Club, writes in the Huffington Post that Congress should not approve the $36 billion increase... [read more]

Mountaintop Removal Mining: Why There’s No Such Thing as ‘Clean Coal’

February 18, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Today, bloggers all over the internet are pulling together for a Social Media Day of Action. Here are the deets, according to the organizers at the Rainforest Action Network: JP Morgan Chase is the largest US financier of mountaintop removal coal mining, investing hundreds of millions of dollars into a real American tragedy. Instead... [read more]

Sierra Club Names New Boat-Rocking Executive Director

January 24, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Michael Brune picks vegetables with his daughter in his backyard garden near Oakland, California. Rainforest Action Network chief Brune to take Sierra Club helm in March After 18 years under the direction of Carl Pope, the nation’s oldest and most well-known environmental organization, the Sierra Club, has named Michael Brune as its... [read more]

Anti-Nuclear Groups Declare Victory In Fight Against SCE&G's VC Summer Nuclear Plant. Actual Score Shows SCE&G Won In Most of Decisions

January 10, 2010 by Rod Adams
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According to a recent article in The State titled Groups gain ground in nuclear plant fight, two anti-nuclear groups have claimed victory in a recent appeal to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of previous decisions by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB). As is often the case in claims by people who adhere... [read more]

Coal Plant Pollution - Sierra Club Endorses Jim Hansen Solutions With a Notable Exception; They Ignore Nuclear, He Does Not

December 31, 2009 by Rod Adams
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Susan McGinnis of Clean Skies News interviewed Bruce Nilles, National Coal Campaign Director from the Sierra Club, about coal plant emissions. There is a very interesting passage in the interview worth transcribing. The following exchange takes place between time marks 4:26 and 5:25 in the clip. Nilles: We do not actually think... [read more]