At a number of locations throughout Virginia, Sierrans participated in 350.org’s “Moving Planet” on Saturday, Sept. 24. Check out all our photos (thanks, Hannah and Jennifer) and video (thanks, Irene Lane!).
Besa issues statement on House drilling vote.
The Virginia Chapter Sierra Club offered the following statement in response to Virginia Beach City Council’s unanimous vote last night adopting the Mayor’s Alternative Energy Task Force report and calling for implementation of its recommendations.
“The Virginia Chapter Sierra Club applauds the hard work and dedication of the Mayor’s Alternative Energy Task Force and urges prompt [...]
The Virginia Chapter Sierra Club offered the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement today to not pursue offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Coast for at least seven years.
“This is a very prudent decision by the White House as it protects both pillars of Virginia’s economy, namely its tourism [...]
When “drill, baby, drill” becomes “spill, baby, spill,” pro-drilling governors need help. Fossil fuel baron Phil Moneybags tells them how to stay the course.
The Gulf Coast’s $100 billion a year tourism industry took a major hit as a result of the BP oil disaster. Sales at restaurants and hotels are way down. Thousands are out of work. Watermen wonder if crabs and oysters will ever come back. Tourists have deserted resort areas. [...]
It was in March this year that Joe Bouchard, Laura Wood Habr (Croc’s 19th Street Bistro and Virginia Beach’s “green ambassador”), Ari Lawrence (Virginia Chair, Surfrider Foundation), and myself met to talk about doing a Hands Across The Sand in Virginia Beach. We were inspired by the 10,000 Floridians who a month earlier had [...]
BREAKING: Thanks everyone for submitting comments. Last yesterday the DOI has decided to re-open the comment period following assessment of the BP disaster. If
you submitted comments, they will be rolled over to the new comment period.
While we applaud President Obama’s decision to cancel Virginia’s lease sale, we are not out of the woods on drilling. [...]
Check out our new promotional! video for Hands Across the Sand! It was produced by Ivy Main, our wonderful Renewable Energy Chair. It “stars” Chesapeake Bay group chairperson Terra Pascarosa, William Reyes a local business owner, former Commander of the Norfolk Naval Station Joe Bouchard, and Ari Lawrence, the Virginia Chapter chairperson with Surfrider Foundation.
The [...]
Glen Besa, Director of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, offered the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement that, in addition to continuing the moratorium on drilling permits for new deepwater wells and delaying in planned exploration off Alaska’s coast, Virginia Lease Sale 220 is canceled.
“The economic and environmental disaster that is currently [...]
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