Sierra Club Compass

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Today the White House reminded us that those who serve our country in the military are sometimes also on the front lines of our clean energy economy. She and Denis McDonough, White House Chief of Staff, who delivered the opening remarks, both called to mind the President's commitments to act on climate -- through his Georgetown University speech from this summer and last week's executive order to create a climate task force. It's an American issue."

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Green Prophet

AUGUST 24, 2020

Doing change is much more important than just talking change: seven Catholic community groups in Virginia support renewables through investing in solar energy. The churches there are building and investing in solar energy to power the communities’ churches and schools, creating 1.6

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Sierra Club Compass

MARCH 13, 2013

Although we've taken many steps to clean up our air over the last few decades, four in ten Americans still live in places where the air is sometimes dangerous to breathe. They would save lives, clean up our air, and create jobs. Unfortunately, the oil industry is opposed to anything that would make them clean up their act. Groups like the American Petroleum Industry are asking their friends in Congress and the White House to delay cleaner tailpipe standards.

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Sierra Club Compass

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Earlier this year, as a result of a settlement with the Sierra Club, American Electric Power announced it would add enough wind energy to power 200,000 homes in Oklahoma. "   #2)  COLORADO DOUBLES DOWN ON CLEAN ENERGY This year, Colorado took a major step toward elevating clean energy in the Rocky Mountains, when Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law new legislation that will double the state's renewable energy standard.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

MAY 8, 2017

99% of species protected by the endangered species act have been saved from extinction. Since the Endangered Species Act became law in 1973, only 10 species protected by it have been declared extinct, and eight of those may have been extinct before they were listed. Evidence is mounting that biodiversity helps to shield people from disease , is essential for food security , and is good for the economy. Adult American Burying Beetles.

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Green (Living) Review

APRIL 4, 2012

The Earth Day Network is hosting "A Billion Acts of Green®" in 2012. April 2012 : The Earth Day Network is hosting "A Billion Acts of Green®" in 2012. The Earth Day Network will also participate in helping to secure political commitment for more sustainable development, assess progress towards internationally agreed commitments and continue to address new and unforeseen challenges. It's possible to register an act of green at act.earthday.org.

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Sierra Club Compass

MARCH 1, 2013

« VIDEO: The Sierra Club Stands with the Fight to Protect the Voting Rights Act | Main. | Millions of Americans are breathing easier these days as we announce that the Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign has crossed the halfway mark toward meeting our goal of securing the retirement of a third of the nation ' s coal-fired power. Earlier this week, we announced the three coal retirements by American Electric Power that put us across this halfway mark. Compass.

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Mother Jones

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

VIDEO: Wait Until China Acts on Climate. Ella Chou, an analyst for Brookings and a clean-energy consultant, points out in this great post that the tax is "puny," and local governments may still try to skirt it: Local governments would continue to come up ways to give industries tax rebates and subsidies to attract them to their own jurisdictions, so the effect of the environmental tax or the carbon tax on the industries would be negligible. Skip to Navigation.

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Green (Living) Review

MAY 23, 2009

by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Clearing biomass from nation's forests will keep them healthy Despite pending federal legislation that promotes renewable, clean energy and creates new jobs, hard-working people in rural areas are being denied the promise of a green economy, according to the American Loggers Council (ALC). A sustainable biomass industry will keep our forests healthy and provide clean energy and green jobs."

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Green Life Smart Life

OCTOBER 27, 2009

ARCADIA, FLORIDA – Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. The end result will promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase efficiency, and foster the growth of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. million smart meters and other technologies that will cut energy costs for its customers.

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Environmental Economics

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

3, 2013, the outgoing congressman will start lobbying for Duke Energy. According to the release, Shuler's focus in 2013 will be "building the federal affairs team and working with leaders in energy associations in which Duke is involved to support federal issues important to the company's customers and shareholders." For all you Redskins fans: The day after Rep. Heath Shuler's third term expires on Jan.

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Conservancy Talk

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

To date, more than 150 countries have submitted their INDCs (intended nationally determined contributions), most focused on measures to increase energy efficiency, scale renewable energy and halt deforestation. Just last month, the White House documented commitments from 81 companies signing on to the American Business Act on Climate Pledge. Climate change represents an immediate risk to global prosperity, security and human well-being.

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Conservancy Talk

MARCH 14, 2017

At a time when national policies seem to fail time and again on budgets, taxes, immigration, health care, your income security and our national security, it is sometimes hard to believe that the federal government can ever do anything right. That is the air pollution control programs of the Clean Air Act. The auto companies railed against the law, saying that it would cost untold billions for American consumers. jobs in the clean car states.

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Sierra Club Compass

MARCH 21, 2013

When Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 in the midst of the debt-ceiling crisis and crushing gridlock, it was a small compromise, delaying economic catastrophe by kicking the can down the road and stopping the bleeding. The bill set up a series of dramatically harsh spending cuts in the far-off year of 2013 with the idea that the pain those cuts would inflict on our economy and our families would be too great for Congress to fail to act. Clean Air and Water.

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PR Watch

APRIL 3, 2012

While the North American shale gas boom continues full-steam ahead, so too does another boom receiving less of the spotlight: the LNG export boom. Department of Energy (DOE). Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). A lesson in North American LNG export terminals is, in actuality, a lesson in the entire geography of the North American unconventional oil and gas infrastructure put on the map, so to speak, by the documentary film, " Gasland.".

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Sightline Daily

APRIL 2, 2015

Northeast states and California invest in energy efficiency and transportation. If Oregon passed a polluters-pay-plus-dividend bill, the air would no longer be a free dumping ground for pollution, clean energy would be on an even playing field with fossil fuels, and each Oregonian would get a check for $500-$1,500 every year. Clean air is a shared asset. Would charging polluters and paying dividends to Oregonians really help Oregon transition to clean energy?

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Conservancy Talk

APRIL 21, 2017

We owe this skill to our mastery of empirical science — the power that comes from using millions of observations and data to decipher trends, and act on that knowledge to preserve and enhance the world in which we live. Take the outdoor recreation industry, which supports millions of American jobs. That decline was reversed by the North American Wetlands Conservation Act.

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Sierra Club Compass

MAY 21, 2013

Through this movement, communities are voting to Lock the Gate , refusing to allow gas companies on their land for exploration in acts of direct action to protect their land and water. With all this impressive action going on, what were a bunch of Americans doing leading an organizing training? To say we were humbled by the energy and creativity of the activists we met in Australia is an understatement.

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Sierra Club Compass

AUGUST 6, 2014

California leads the nation in solar energy generation. But while most of California continues moving the clean energy transition forward, the Port of Long Beach has taken a huge step backwards, promoting the interests and protecting the wallets of the toxic fossil fuel industry. The plan, which will have devastating consequences for local and overseas communities, secures dirty fossil fuel exports for the next 15 years.

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Green Life Smart Life

JANUARY 15, 2010

“And the clean energy jobs of the future are created by smart grid companies every day. Senior Executives from DRSG member companies Whirlpool, Honeywell, Landis + Gyr, EnerNOC and Ice Energy represented DRSG, with each company giving an overview of their respective role in smart grid development and how they are adding jobs and contributing to economic recovery as a result of the new business opportunities being created by smart grid policy developments.

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Sightline Daily

MAY 28, 2013

We’ve often heard that the best communications strategies drive home how climate change impacts—as well as the co-benefits of smart energy solutions—are local, concrete, and personal. A recent study by Matthew Nisbet and Edward Maibach, and colleagues, compared the effectiveness of three different frames for stirring audiences to support climate solutions—the standard “environmental consequences” frame, a national security frame, and a public health frame.

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Green Prophet

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The practice of distributed agriculture, it is endeavored, could make the US food secure. Climate change, countries in conflict, and acts of terror could all upend the American way when food gets involved. The company is currently building out the first North American indoor agriculture research park in the quaint town of Brattleboro, Vermont , and is negotiating contracts to build food parks all over the United States. US Food Security as National Security.

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Conservancy Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

We do still have a ways to go in this area – while the media is starting to care more about climate change, and nearly two thirds of Americans believe it’s happening, almost 40 percent of Americans are either not too worried, or not worried at all about climate change. Third , the clean technology economy is a real thing now, bringing much-needed innovation into the marketplace. Clean energy companies bring real jobs and facilities (in Congressional districts!),

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Eco Friendly Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Davey, chief executive of Melbourne renewable-energy company EnviroMission, aims to break ground here early next year on the world's first commercial "solar tower" power station. "The Acting as a giant greenhouse, the solar collector will superheat the air with radiation from the sun. The result: enough clean, green electricity to power some 100,000 homes without producing a particle of pollution or a wisp of planet-warming gases. "We're

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Sierra Club Compass

JUNE 9, 2014

The much-anticipated safeguards to clean up carbon pollution from existing power plants have finally been announced , and just as expected, both support and opposition for the protections is all over the airwaves. Even before the Clean Power Plan was proposed, the conservative Chamber of Commerce came out punching with debunked, inaccurate attacks about the plan, claiming we’d see rate hikes and job losses while ignoring the massive economic and public health benefits.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JULY 5, 2017

Davey, chief executive of Melbourne renewable-energy company EnviroMission, aims to break ground here early next year on the world's first commercial "solar tower" power station. "The Acting as a giant greenhouse, the solar collector will superheat the air with radiation from the sun. The result: enough clean, green electricity to power some 100,000 homes without producing a particle of pollution or a wisp of planet-warming gases. "We're

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Green Prophet

AUGUST 27, 2019

You pour yourself another cup of coffee, hoping caffeine will pump up the energy levels so you can focus better. You might resolve to improve your sleeping habits, eat more healthily, learn to de-stress through meditation… but the simple act of opening the windows might be the only thing you need. According to the American Lung Association , air pollution exists indoors too. Now in the summer, open bedroom windows before you sleep, with due consideration to security.

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Conservancy Talk

MARCH 10, 2017

This flexible, bottom-up agreement that engages all countries to act in their own self-interest on climate stands in sharp contrast to the Kyoto Protocol. Both administrations understood that the only way to achieve domestic support for an international climate change agreement was to secure appropriate emissions reductions pledges from developing countries. Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of the Nature Conservancy and author of Nature’s Fortune.

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Sierra Club Compass

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

' We couldn't agree more that the time to act is now.  He must double down on clean energy and cut carbon pollution from smokestacks across the country. And we’re telling him that our planet and the American people can’t wait for the political dust to settle, for Congress to wise up, or for another devastating storm to strike before we do something.   Unless we act now, and act with strength, this could become the new normal. Compass.

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Green Earth Journey

JUNE 26, 2009

The House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by a vote of 219 to 212. The legislation also includes provisions to create alternative energy sources and cleaner technologies, as well as more efficient building standards.

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Sierra Club Compass

APRIL 9, 2013

Congressman Ed Markey has been an outspoken and tireless  champion on climate and clean energy issues since first being elected to the U.S. There, he has lead the charge to hold big polluters responsible for the damage they do to the people and places we care most about, and acted time and time again to pursue climate solutions. Senator just like he does - if we continue the fight to ensure they have a safe and secure future.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Republicans want you to believe that Americans hate clean energy. They’ve seized on one bankruptcy to prove that all clean tech companies are doomed to failure, and government shouldn’t invest in them. But Californa’s Solyndra was just one innovative clean tech investment among $90 billion worth of clean tech investments by the Department of Energy under the Obama administration’s Recovery Act.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

MARCH 26, 2014

Science for Nature and People (SNAP) announces the selection of six new Working Groups that will bring science to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges involving nature and human well-being — from urban water security to hydraulic fracturing’s impact on water quality , from the sustainable management of fish stocks to feeding 9 billion people without destroying the planet. Urban Water Security: Prioritizing Investments in Nature.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

OCTOBER 2, 2015

But suddenly, because of all the national new coverage, this species was now in the consciousness of many other Americans, too. The peril to the sagebrush isn’t just energy development or ranchers or urban sprawl. This is a favorite saying of my friend Paul Hansen, who was a conservation champion of the Clean Air Act in the 1960s—an era when we seemed to know how to do collaborative conservation better.

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Conservancy Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Can we have a future where people get the food, energy, and economic growth they need without sacrificing nature? Under President Nixon we got the EPA, The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act. Take the Clean Air Act, for example. The Act required tail pipe emissions to be reduced by 75% in just five years. Today, thanks mainly to the Clean Air Act, cars are 99.5

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Conservancy Talk

JANUARY 9, 2018

Just before the end of 2017, I had the chance to speak to a group of college students about what they can do to act on climate change. Climate change is a huge challenge to human health, access to food and water, security, and the economy, too. This may sound obvious, but—sadly—less than 37% of Americans voted in the last mid-term election—the lowest levels since WWII. Or stand up for renewable portfolio standards and other smart energy policies.

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Conservancy Talk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In most respects, environmental policy has been more successful than budget policy, energy policy, foreign policy, education policy—you name it. Gina McCarthy probably summed it up best at a recent 40 th anniversary celebration for the Safe Drinking Water Act. Here’s what she said, and I quote: “Americans drink a billion glasses of tap water every day. Before the Safe Drinking Water Act, 40 percent of that water didn’t meet basic health standards.

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Mother Jones

JANUARY 25, 2013

→ Climate Change , Energy , Environment , Interview. While staff and board members have previously participated in acts of civil disobedience in a personal capacity, this is the first time that the organization will take part. When it's used rarely, in extraordinary conditions, American history shows that it has done a great deal in helping to address injustices. MJ: So, what sort of acts of civil disobedience to you foresee taking part in? Skip to Navigation.

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Mother Jones

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

→ Energy , Environment , International , Regulatory Affairs , Tech , The Climate Desk , Top Stories. But Americas small-yet-dedicated entrepreneurial corps of offshore developers are still chasing "wet steel," as they call it, while their European and Asian colleagues forge ahead on making offshore wind a basic component of their energy plans. Obama Administration Says President Can Use Lethal Force Against Americans on US Soil. Secure, Discreet and Reliable.

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Conservancy Talk

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Under President Nixon we got the EPA, The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act. Take the Clean Air Act, for example. On December 31, 1970, President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act as the first Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus and the Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Russell Train look on. Today, thanks mainly to the Clean Air Act, cars today are 99.5

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The Green Changemakers

JUNE 5, 2009

Telling people you will reduce carbon emissions may seem simplistic, but even simple actions like announcing your commitment to going carbon neutral can be effective, while the simple act of asking for ideas can lead to creative and innovative solutions. Most homes or businesses can reduce energy use by 10 per cent—which almost always results in a 10 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions—with a one year payback or less. Reducing this energy can create instant savings.

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The Green Changemakers

JUNE 11, 2008

and Russian arsenals) still pose one of the greatest threats to human security. government accountable for clean up, waste management, and warhead dismantlement programs. www.shundahai.org The Union of Concerned Scientists organizes a global security campaign that advocates for the elimination of nuclear weapons. www.ajmuste.org American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world.

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Green Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

And in an effort to increase their incomes and securing their profit-margins the corporate media is cutting their costs wherever they can. A Gallup survey released last year shows that an increasing number of Americans (41%) believe that global warming is being "exaggerated" in the media. The same survey also shows that Americans have started to feel a bit less worried about climate change. Or that renewable energy is both expensive and damaging to the environment.

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