Virginia Chapter Director Glen Besa is one of forty Sierra Club representatives serving as official observers to the UN climate talks in Cancun. He has filed two reports thus far which you can read here and here.
Photo caption: In the face of mounting science that GHG emissions from the use of fossil fuels are approaching [...]
At the close Governor McDonnell’s Conference on Energy, Sierra Club announced that it had just endorsed a new wind project in Roanoke County proposed by Invenergy and had moved to intervene in litigation to defend the US EPA’s new guidance to protect rivers and streams from the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining. [...]
From Antigone Ambrose, Conservation Program Coordinator:
Call Senator Warner TODAY! Tell him to protect the Clean Air Act and vote NO on the Dirty Air Act!
Sen. Mark Warner 202-224-2023
Attacks on the Clean Air Act put public health at risk and reverse efforts to hold polluters accountable, reduce America’s dependence on dirty fossil fuels, [...]
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 [...]
The Sierra Club along with eight other progressive action groups are sponsoring “Tools for Change: Grassroots Advocacy Workshops” in Northern Virginia, Norfolk and Richmond.
Each workshop asks the following questions:
· How can we move to a clean energy, jobs-producing economy?
· How can individuals, businesses, churches and others use energy more efficiently?
· How can we [...]
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 [...]
From the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition:
Next week you have an important opportunity to show your opposition to the huge coal-fired power plant proposed for Hampton Roads. On February 4th, the Surry County Board of Supervisors will hold its public hearing on the proposed Old Dominion Electric Co-operative (ODEC) plant, which would be the largest [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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