This is a guest post by Greg Haegele, deputy executive director of the Sierra Club, who has a regular weekly column on Treehugger.com. BP Hearing 011 Sierra Club's Mary Anne Hitt, Carl Pope and Lyndsay Moseley (R to L) stake out the front row of the Arlington EPA hearing. This week we saw some amazing ...

The Chicago public hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's Big Polluters (tailoring) rule is now underway, and we've got folks tweeting from inside. Follow the #bigpolluters hashtag all day on Twitter to stay up to date on it all. Also, later today we'll have a nice wrap-up from both hearings. ...

Our folks are on the ground Tweeting from the EPA's second hearing on their proposed "Big Polluters" rule that would regulate pollution from large polluters - in Chicago, Il. You can contribute to the discussion through Twitter using the hashtag #bigpolluters

This post was written by Jeff Speir, apprentice for the Sierra Club Clean Energy Solutions Campaign. Sealing a door frame Following in the wake of the consumer, economic, and environmental success of the "Cash for Clunkers" program this summer, the Obama administration is considering using stimulus ...

BP Hearing 017 That's a photo of Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (left) testifying at today's Environmental Protection Agency public hearing on the Big Polluters rule. We'll have more of a wrap-up blog post tomorrow, once the Chicago hearing is complete (today's hearing was in Arlington, Virginia), ...

Our folks are on the ground Tweeting from the EPA's first of two hearing on their proposed "Big Polluters" rule that would regulate pollution from large polluters. You can contribute to the discussion through Twitter using the hashtag #bigpolluters

This is the weekly post from Bruce Nilles, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. Wednesday and Thursday of this week are big days if you live in Arlington, Virginia, or Chicago, Illinois. Those are the two days of public hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Big Polluters” ...

Time again for a round-up of energy and global warming news from the past few days. First up, this weekend we heard the news that for the upcoming major international climate talks in Copenhagen slated for December, there will be no legally-binding treaty created. Rather, the countries will create a ...

By:Julian Carmona, Intern for the Global Warming and Energy Team The time to act on climate change is running out. The time to act on climate change is running out (yes, I wrote it twice). While the Senate is navigating itself through the intricacies of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, ...

A report out this week from the U.S. Green Building Council says that "(d)espite a challenging economic outlook, green building will support 7.9 million U.S. jobs and pump $554 billion into the American economy – including $396 billion in wages – over the next four years (2009-2013)..." Phew! The report ...