Articles by Mary Anne Hitt
Mary Anne Hitt is director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, which is working to eliminate coal's contribution to global warming and repower the nation with clean energy.
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EPA releases mercury safeguard to protect Americans
We are happy to see the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today propose a critical air quality standard to protect Americans against life-threatening air pollution such as mercury and arsenic from power plants, which currently emit air toxics with no limits. According to EPA, each year this new protection will save as many as 17,000 lives […]
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Embracing Clean Energy in the Northwest and Beyond
This past weekend we announced that the Washington State Senate approved a landmark agreement between the Sierra Club, Governor Chris Gregoire and TransAlta to phase out the state’s massive 1,600-megawatt coal plant between 2020 and 2025. With growing pressure from the public (including environmental groups, clean energy advocates, health professionals, students and the faith community) […]
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Take action: phase out fossil fuels at the World Bank
The Sierra Club is joining activists from around the world to call on the World Bank to free us from fossil fuels and the landscapes of extraction, hidden conflict, and increasingly frequent natural disasters associated with their consumption. Today, we join our international colleagues in a day of action that will flood the World Bank’s […]
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Fighting Back for Clean Air and Water
During the past week we’ve seen people across the country standing up to support the Environmental Protection Agency’s safeguards for public health. Many polluters and public officials don’t want the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address threats such as air toxics, soot and smog, coal ash, global warming, and water pollution. Thankfully, that didn’t stop […]
