The Sierra Club (and the Planet) Will Miss Greg Haegele

For several years now, Treehugger readers have been reading weekly posts from my colleague and dear friend Greg Haegele, Deputy Executive Director here at the Sierra Club.

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New Scientific Concerns Beg for End to Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining

Mountain top removal coal mining at Kayford Mine, West Virginia. Image credit:© 2006 B

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What’s Black and White and Oily All Over?

Alaskan Polar Bear wrapped in oil pipeline web. Image credit: Beehive Collective , Art Not Oil. That would be a polar bear in middle of an oil slick.

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What’s Black and White and Oily All Over?

Alaskan Polar Bear wrapped in oil pipeline web. Image credit: Beehive Collective , Art Not Oil

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Humans Brought Monkeys to St. Kitts and Inadvertently Turned Them Into Alcoholics (Video)

Images: Youtube Where Can I Get a Drink Here? Okay, this one is a bit on the light side, but I found it quite interesting as an illustration of the unintended consequences (sometimes really unintended) of introducing non-native species in foreign ecosystems.

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Humans Brought Monkeys to St. Kitts and Inadvertently Turned Them Into Alcoholics (Video)

Humans Brought Monkeys to St. Kitts and Inadvertently Turned Them Into Alcoholics (Video)

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Hundreds Speak Out In Support of EPA Global Warming Rule

Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifies at the Arlington EPA hearing as API’s Howard Feldman looks on. This week we saw some amazing public action as part of the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on its proposed tailoring rule , which we call the “Big Polluters” rule. Right now only a handful of pollution sources, including coal-fired power plants, are responsible for more than half of all of the global warming pollution in the United States.

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Hundreds Speak Out In Support of EPA Global Warming Rule

Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifies at the Arlington EPA hearing as API’s Howard Feldman looks on. This week we saw some amazing public action as part of the two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings on its proposed tailoring rule , which we call the “Big Polluters” rule. Right now only a handful of pollution sources, including coal-fired power plants, are responsible for more than half of all of the global warming pollution in the United States.

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Named Greenest City in the U.K.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne has been named the greenest city in the U.K. in a sustainability audit conducted by Forum for the Future. Photo by Draco2008 via Flickr.com

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Enter the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge Today

Image credit: The Sierra Club /Flickr Right now, students from kindergarten to eighth grade can enter the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge .

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