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How much credit can Beyond Coal claim for plant closures?
This article assesses the impact that Michael Bloomberg and the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign have had on coal plant closures.
In 2011, when the Sierra Club and then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the Beyond Coal campaign, coal accounted for 42% of America’s power generation. Today, that figure […]
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Two different approaches to renewable energy
This article discusses how Dominion Energy did not include solar and storage in their resource plan. By excluding storage from its resource plan, the Virginia utility also excluded solar + storage, proposing up to 3.2 GW of gas-fired peaking units instead. Separately, a solar association and the utility agreed […]
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Report: EPA head asked to back up claim that climate change is ’50 to 75 years out’
This The Hill article discusses Andrew Wheeler’s ignorance about climate change. The sad part is, he’s the head of EPA.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler is being asked to back up recent claims that climate change consequences are still “50 to 75 years out.”
In a freedom of information request […]
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More than 100 U.S. cities have pledged to switch to renewable energy
This Yale Climate Connections audio discusses how more than 100 U.S. cities have pledged to switch to renewable energy. People across the country – from coast to coast, and from small towns to big cities – are urging their communities to switch to one hundred percent renewable energy.
Kassie Rohrbach: […]
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Sierra Club statement on the Air Board’s approving joining RGGI
This Sierra Club statement addresses the Air Board’s Voting to approve Virginia joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
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Letter to the Editor-Sierra Club Endorses Spotsylvania Solar Farm
This letter to the editors of the Free Lance-Star supports the Spotsylvania Solar Farm.
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Rappahannock Sierra Club: Support the Spotsylvania solar farm
This Virginia Mercury article discusses the Spotsylvania Solar Farm. The Rappahannock Group of the Sierra Club has taken awhile in arriving at our position on sPower’s proposed Spotsylvania solar farm because we wanted to complete our own analysis of the issues.
On the one hand, it is critical that we stop […]
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Puerto Rico Energy Plan Calls For Huge Solar And Storage Investments
This article discusses the Puerto Rico energy plan, which calls for huge solar and storage investments.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has released a draft version of its 2019 integration resource plan (IRP), laying out the future development and continued recovery of Puerto Rico’s electric grid over the […]
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Virginia wants more action on climate change. Here’s where residents stand on policies.
This article discusses how some Virginia residents want more action on climate change.
Throughout Virginia, most residents are worried about climate change, fear that it will harm people in the U.S. within a decade and want the government to do more to tackle the problem.
And data from the Yale Program on […]
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Report: Climate Could Hit a Tipping Point Sooner Than You Think
This article discusses how climate change could hit a tipping point sooner than expected. The planet’s ability to uptake carbon could decline after 2060.
The latest, a Columbia Engineering report published in Nature this week, projects that the planet’s capacity to take in the carbon dioxide, and in particular that produced by human activity—such as […]
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