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Oregon Activists Fired Up to Fight Natural Gas Exports
It's hard to imagine the mouth of the Columbia River, where American explorers Lewis and Clark traversed during the 19th century, being overrun with a huge natural-gas export terminal and massive pipelines, just to stuff the pockets of dirty-energy companies....
This Land is OUR Land, or is it Oil Land?
I recently enjoyed some excellent hiking and camping in one of America’s wildest places, southern Utah’s Canyonlands. Some Sierra Club colleagues and I joined the Great Old Broads for Wilderness for a “Broad Walk” the last weekend of September. It...
How One Activist Holds Big Coal Accountable in Kentucky
Nearby families breathed a little easier after Louisville Gas and Electric (LG&E) reversed course and withdrew plans to build a coal-burning waste dump at its Cane Run site. The news concluded a three-year battle between the coal plant and Sierra...
Murder Incorporated: Big Oil Pleads Immunity from Prosecution for Human Rights Crimes
This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case that throws a spotlight on the oil industry's toxic influence on our democracy -- and why we need to move America beyond oil as quickly as possible. In the 1990s,...
Naughty or Nice…What’s Hard About Dealing with Coal?
Monica Gray of HyperVocal talked to Beyond Coal Campaign Senior Director Bruce Nilles on World Environment Day yesterday, and he shared his thoughts on the Beyond Coal campaign, what's next for coal, and what's hard about moving from coal to...
The Zombie Pipeline: TransCanada’s Keystone XL Is Alive Once Again
Keystone XL remains a dangerous and unnecessary project. Americans agree that this pipeline should not be built once they learn the details. Our challenge is confronting a multi-million dollar lobbying and a PR campaign by TransCanada to force through their...
Indian Activists Visit Appalachia to Build Global Coalition Against Coal Industry
The forest-shaded hills of the Appalachian Mountains near Charleston, WV, may seem an unlikely place for Indian activists to campaign against a destructive coal plant being built 8,000 miles away in Gujarat state in India. But that is where Soumya...
A First for Fracking Air Pollution: the EPA Steps In
With natural gas companies polluting our air, and countless communities mobilizing against them, the Environmental Protection Agency today took a big step forward with a federal safeguard that will curb air pollution and protect families. This is an important day...
New Videos: Coal Will Say Anything
The pollution caused by coal is serious business, as are the devastating affects coal pollution has on our health, our mountains, our air and water, and our planet. But sometimes the claims made by coal boosters are truly absurd, and...
Oil Spill: Tanker Collision Spills 450,000 Gallons in Port Arthur, Texas
Big Oil has a shameful history. That’s why in this series we arehighlighting some of its mostrecent disastrous oil spills and raising awareness of the devastation that will occur if the industry is allowed to drill in the Arctic and...
