Paula on Point

This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on January 15, 2019 and can be found here.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is as iconic an American natural ecosystem as Yosemite or the Grand Canyon. Established in 1960 by Dwight Eisenhower, it has protected and sustained a diverse wildlife population – polar bears, caribou, bald eagles, snowy owls and many others – as well as the lives and culture of the Gwich’in people, who have lived there for thousands of years.

But now it’s under siege by the Trump administration, which is intent on opening the Arctic Refuge’s 1.6 million-acre coastal plain to drilling of its oil and gas reserves.

Continue reading “Standing Strong for the Arctic Refuge”

This article was published on the Sierra Club’s national website on December 10, 2018 and can be found here.

The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign scored an impressive victory in New York State on November 8^th, when the office of Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the state’s solicitation for at least 800 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind development. It was the culmination of over five years of disciplined effort on the part of the Sierra Club’s Atlantic Chapter, Beyond Coal Campaign staff and volunteers, and a coalition of over fifty organizational partners. The announcement supports Cuomo’s pledge to develop 2,400 MW of wind power as well as his mandate of 50 percent renewable energy in New York, both by 2030. Contracts are expected to be awarded in the spring of 2019.

Continue reading “Victory for Offshore Wind in Empire State”