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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 next […]
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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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Your guide to clean energy and climate bills this session (blink and you might miss them)
This article, by Ivy Main of the Sierra Club, discusses clean energy and climate bills before the Virginia legislature in 2019.
Clean energy and climate action are mainstream concepts with the public these days, but at Virginia’s General Assembly they have yet to gain much traction. Last year saw one renewable […]
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Environmental groups push coal ash, solar and carbon bills in Virginia
This article discusses how environmental groups are pushing for coal ash, solar and carbon bills in Virginia in 2019.
Environmental groups are uniting behind three key bills in the General Assembly that they say would help align Virginia with clean energy efforts already underway in other states.
The bills would mandate the […]
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The Energy 202: Court ruling may give environmental activists more fodder against EPA
This article discusses a recent court ruling against the EPA.
The Sierra Club, one of the nation’s oldest environmental organizations, led a vocal campaign to oust Scott Pruitt by helping to reveal various managerial and ethical lapses by the former Environmental Protection Agency chief.
Now with a recent court decision, the group hopes it can apply that […]
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