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Report: A VISION FOR CLIMATE LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON, DC
The Sierra Club issued a report titled: A VISION FOR CLIMATE LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON, DC. Seizing the Economic, Climate, and Public Health Benefits of Electrifying WMATA’s Transit Bus Fleet.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) operates the sixth-largest bus fleet in the United States, providing service to residents in […]
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Report: Is renewable natural gas a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’?
Grist discusses whether renewable natural gas is a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’.
While wind and solar power and electric vehicles tend to dominate the conversation around preventing catastrophic climate change, electricity and transportation aren’t the whole picture. The world also needs to act quickly to reduce emissions from other […]
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Major pipelines take hit, but oil networks keep growing
Politico discusses how major pipelines have taken a hit, but oil networks keep growing. Despite recent high-profile courtroom losses, the oil and gas industry has succeeded in putting tens of thousands of miles of new steel in the ground.
“One thing for sure is there is a lot going on in […]
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6 Places Where the National Environmental Policy Act Made The Difference
EarthJustice discusses 6 Places Where the National Environmental Policy Act Made The Difference. One of the first lawsuits under the National Environmental Policy Act was brought — and won — by Earthjustice on behalf of the Sierra Club in 1971. It demanded an environmental study before the government allowed the Gila River, a […]
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This is no time for Virginia to keep outdated building efficiency standards
Virginia Mercury discusses why this is no time for Virginia to keep outdated building efficiency standards.
You remember the story of the Three Little Pigs. First the little pigs built themselves a house out of straw, but the big, bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew it down. Barely escaping […]
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What part of ‘zero’ doesn’t Dominion understand?
Virginia Mercury discusses Dominion Energy’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and recent Virginia legislation on clean energy, an article by Ivy Main of the Sierra Club.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Dominion Energy Virginia filed its 2020 Integrated Resource Plan on May 1. Instead of charting the […]
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Sierra Club Lawsuit Challenges Construction of Permian Highway Fracked Gas Pipeline
The Sierra Club announced that they just filed a lawsuit challenging the construction of the Permian Highway Fracked Gas Pipeline.
The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permitting the ongoing construction of the 428-mile Permian Highway fracked gas pipeline, despite a federal court […]
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10 folks who have influenced the environmental landscape—for better or worse
Environmental Health News discusses 10 folks who have influenced the environmental landscape—for better or worse. A thoroughly incomplete list of politicans, scientists, activists, tycoons, journalists, and philanthropists who have made a difference. The environmental landscape contains a wealth of personalities: Hellraisers and treehuggers; deniers and political hacks; academics and […]
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3 WAYS TO TELL IF CORPORATIONS ARE GENUINE ABOUT FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
Ensia discusses how to tell if corporations are genuinely attempting to fight climate change. Experts offer criteria for separating legitimate climate plans from hollow claims.
When Larry Fink announced in mid-January he’d be putting solving the climate emergency at the center of his US$7.43 trillion investment company BlackRock’s strategy, […]
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Sierra Club Insider, February 25, 2020
This weeks stories include discussions about JP Morgan not financing Arctic Refuge drilling, vegan diets, greenwashing the climate crisis, trump’s wall and its impact on endangered species, technology and climate change, birds and bees impacted by pesticides, the Supreme Court and pipelines, plastics, zero waste, and NEPA,
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