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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...

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...