Sierra Club

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Using bureaucratic or legal means, such as zoning or water use, environmental groups have stopped 65 coal plants in the last three years. The LA Times explains its really a war about climate change, “Coal puts twice as much temperature-raising carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as natural gas, second to coal as the most common power plant fuel.“

The Sierra Club, the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the U.S. announced the establishing of a Center for Green Livelihoods in India for partnering with civil society organizations to explore ways of creating a robust dialogue towards developing a green economy.

David Hamilton, Director and Team Leader, Global Warming and Energy Programs, Sierra Club; Rhone Resch, President, Solar Energy Industries Association(SEIA); Randy Swisher, Executive Director, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) react to enactment of the 2007 Energy Bill. They also look toward newlegislation, such as a planned economic stimulus bill, to gain provisions such as extension of renewable tax credits, that didn"t make it into the final Energy Bill.

The panelists debate and discuss energy production and supply from economic, national security and environmental perspectives -- including whether climate change is caused by humans and what to do about it.

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The Sierra Club is leading a campaign in New Mexico to ask Senator Domenici to support a renewable energy bill, generating millions in additional income for land owners and creating thousands of local jobs.