How EPA’s Haze Rule Can Help Keep Our Air Clear
This blog was written by Mary Anne Hitt, Director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. The original blog was published on May 20, 2016 and appeared here, on Huffington Post's Green blog. …
Guest Post: Big Rigs, Big Benefits; How Strong Rules Will Clean Up the Road
This blog was originally published on Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) blog, The Equation, by Kenneth Kimmel, president of UCS. SACE's clean fuels team works to support UCS' Half the Oil vision…
Sierra Club: Duke's Asheville coal plant exceeding safe sulfur dioxide levels
This guest blog was written by Emma Greenbaum, who is the Sierra Club's Organizing Representative for North Carolina Beyond Coal in Asheville, NC. For the past several years, the Asheville Beyond Coal campaign has been speaking…
2015: The Year of New Public Health Standards for Ozone
With only one month left in the year, the Environmental Protection Agency released its long awaited and updated proposed ground-level ozone standards on November 25, 2014. EPA updated its ozone standard in…
Ala. PSC’s Twinkle "Queen of Coal" Cavanaugh intentionally misleads public on television interview
There is a famous saying by the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." This morning, Twinkle Cavanaugh, chair of the Alabama…
New NAACP report touts energy equity opportunities
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) released a new report this week, Just Energy Policies, profiling energy policies that can help reform energy production and use in the…
Drive an Electric Vehicle This Weekend for National Plug In Day
Want more first hand experience with an electric vehicle? Well, this weekend is a great time to get behind the wheel and try one out for yourself during National Plug In Day. …
Empowering All Voices for Energy Equity
This post is being reposted from a blog written by SACE staff, Seandra Pope and Amelia Shenstone, for the Partnership for Southern Equity originally published on their website on February 27, 2013. The Southern…
Protect childrens health, protect the environment
October is Children's Health Month and a great opportunity to stand up for clean energy and clean air policies that will protect human health, especially children's health since they are the most…
From Smoke Stacks and Tailpipes to Asthma Attacks and Clean Air Gripes
SACE staffers Anne Blair and Jennifer Rennicks contributed to this post. May is Asthma Awareness month: an opportunity to highlight a serious, chronic respiratory disease that affects the quality of life of nearly…