Tag: sierra club

Corporate Climate Campaign Demands Divestment from Dirty Tar Sands

Fifty eight organizations, led by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, released an open letter today demanding that companies take climate action. The letter calls on U.S. corporations with trucking fleets join 19 leading companies in avoiding fuel from …

July 2, 2013
Renewable Energy Activists Unite Worldwide to End the Age of Dirty Coal

This weekend, activists showed they would not longer stand by allow the advancement of coal to threaten their futures. Standing together, they called for an end to …

July 1, 2013
New Evidence Reveals Significant Carbon Pollution Increase if Keystone Pipeline Approved

This week, environmentalists called on the State Department to reopen the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline environmental review process. New information from the Department of Energy …

June 27, 2013
Billionaire Tom Steyer Launches Campaign to Rally Obama Supporters Against Keystone XL Pipeline

To demonstrate the dangers of the Keystone pipeline to American communities along its proposed route, Steyer commissioned the first-ever chemical analysis of tar sands oil collected from the March 2013 spill in Mayflower, AR. An independent laboratory …

June 21, 2013
3,000+ New Yorkers Converge on Albany for Anti-Fracking, Pro-Renewables Rally

Over 3,000 New Yorkers took time off work yesterday to send a message to Albany that they want Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature to reject fracking and lead the nation in renewable energy. Organizers noted that …

June 18, 2013