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As head of EPA, Andrew Wheeler wants to reduce protections from toxic chemical pollution

Toxic Chemicals Coursing Through Your Veins

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Thomas Schueneman | 1 Comments

The Sierra Club raises concerns ahead of a vote in the Senate Environment and Public works committee to advance Andrew Wheeler as permanent head of the EPA.

Trump Golf course needs protection from sea level rise

Trump’s Climate Skepticism Ends Where His Golf Courses Begin

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Trump claims he “doesn’t see” the impacts of climate change. At the same time he works to protect his golf courses from sea level rise.

SCOTUS stay only a bump in the road for the Clean Power Plan as the trend away from dirty energy continues

Impact of Supreme Court Stay on Clean Power Plan

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Earlier this week the Supreme Court issued a stay in a 5-4 vote along idealogical lines halting progress on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), a mainstay of president Obama’s national climate action plan designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. The order briefly stated that the CPP is on hold until legal challenges to the rule have run…

Coalition Calls on White House to Institute Strong Coal Ash Disposal Regulations

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

A coalition of 120 organizations has sent a letter to the White House requesting the first-ever federal regulations governing coal ash disposal be strong and comprehensive. The EPA is expected to issue a final proposed rule by December 19.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign marks its 179 coal plant retirement

Beyond Coal: One Less Coal-Burning Power Plant

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Marks 179th Coal Plant Retirement In response to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement of air quality violations, White Pine Electric Power announced last week its commitment to stop burning coal at its small 60-megawatt power plant in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The plant’s two online units will convert immediately to natural gas. The facility has until 2023 to install best-in-class…

EPA report finds that our air isn't as clean as we thought.

Sierra Club Launches Bad Air Alert Text System

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

EPA report finds air not as healthy as previously thought In late August the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its latest smog pollution policy assessment with an unsettling finding. What were thought as “safe” levels of smog pollution are not so safe after all. The report recommends revising the current health-based national ambient air quality standard for ozone from 75 parts per billion…