Category: Climate Change

Standing up to Cuccinelli; Support the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
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Standing up to Cuccinelli; Support the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter

We cannot let Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli undermine our state’s environmental laws.
Mainstream Virginians who may have voted for Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General last November likely had no idea what they were getting, but we all know now.  For the next four years we have a right wing extremist as Attorney General who is much [...]

Sierra Club Responds to AG Cuccinelli’s EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations Challenge
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Sierra Club Responds to AG Cuccinelli’s EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations Challenge

The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter offered its response to Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s announcement that the Attorney General’s office is challenging US EPA action regulating greenhouse gases and finding that climate change endangers the public health of Americans.
“Attorney General Cuccinelli is wasting taxpayers’ money on frivolous and ideological litigation that ignores the science and the [...]

Voices From Copenhagen
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Voices From Copenhagen

Virginia Chapter Director Glen Besa is in Copenhagen for the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Glen is blogging from the conference. His first post, “On the Eve of Copenhagen” is here at Sierra Club’s Climate Crossroads blog.
Glen also had the opportunity to take a boat tour of Middelgrunden (Denmark) offshore wind farm [...]

Climate Action Toolkit
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Climate Action Toolkit

From off-shore drilling to mountain-top removal coal mining, Virginia stands to lose both mountains and coast if we continue to rely on fos­sil fuels. Hampton Roads is the 10th most vulnerable area to sea level rise on the planet, threatening the Chesapeake Bay, densely populated coastal communities, and several military installations.
We also have a lot [...]

Citizens Energy Plan for Virginia
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Citizens Energy Plan for Virginia

Scientific consensus affirms global warming is occurring and that it is primarily caused by the use of such fossil fuels as coal and oil. Assessments from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that unchecked higher temperatures, rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather phenomena caused by global warming pose some of [...]