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Global Warming Cases

• EPA Blocks Air Permit for BP Refinery Expansion
• New Report: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Too Costly to Appalachia's Economies
• EPA Vows to Scrutinize Applications for New Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Permits Citing Concerns Over Environmental Impacts
• Global Warming Victory in California
• Blair Mountain Added to National Register of Historic Places; State of West Virginia Moves to De-List
• Pivotal Global Warming Victory in High Court
• Sierra Club Urges EPA to Regulate Toxic Air Pollutants to Curb Global Warming and Protect the Health of Communities
• Big win in Fight Against Global Warming
• Sierra Club Victory: Court Tosses Out Bush Administration Light Truck Fuel Economy Standards
• A Win for the Wind Industry
• Sierra Club and allies win long, hard fight against Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal-fired power plant in North Carolina
• Sierra Club Highlights Global Warming Impacts of Destructive Oil Shale and Tar Sands Development in the Arid West
• New EPA Agrees to Consider Global Warming Emissions from Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plants
• Sierra Club and Allies Act to Protect West Virginia’s Rare Waters
• Western Transmission Lines will Serve Dirty Coal, Sierra Club and Allies Take Action
• 100th Coal Plant Defeated!
• Maryland Commission Rules that Application for PATH Transmission Line is Improper, PATH Companies must Start Process Again
• Tehama County General Plan Approves Massive Development that will Exacerbate Global Warming
• Sierra Club Funds Solar Rebate Program in Ohio
• Entergy Puts Little Gypsy Project on Hold for At Least Three Years
• Northern Michigan University's Air Permit Sent Back to MDEQ for Failing to Regulate CO2 Emissions from Proposed Coal Plant
• Nevada Ely Energy Center is Indefinitely Postponed!
• Montana Electric Company Abandons Proposed Coal Plant
• Sierra Club Continues Fight Against Proposed Wyoming Coal Plant
• Big Stone II Utilities Pull Plug on Massive Coal Plant Project
• Sierra Club Files Emergency Suit to Stop Global Warming
• Kansas Hearing Officer rules Sunflower Electric Power Corp. must regulate CO2 emissions from massive coal plant expansion
• Sierra Club Joins Local Groups Opposing Tar Sands Refinery
• Major win in the fight against Utah power plant permits!
• California Cities Once Again Leads Fight Against Global Warming
• Powder River Basin Rail Line Threatens South Dakota and Midwest
• Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and Teamsters Join Forces to Protect Air Quality, Health of Border Regions
• Sierra Club Settlement a Win for Communities, Public Health
• Massey Ordered to Clean Up Their Act in Appalachia
• Kentucky “Thunder Ridge” Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine Suspended
• Illinois EPA Ordered to Revaluate Permit for Refinery Expansion
• A Clean Energy Future for Detroit
• Sierra Club Joins United States Gov't, Appalachian Groups to Hold Massey Energy Accountable for Water Pollution Caused by Mountaintop Removal
• Power Company Spends $270 million on Environmental Upgrades in Response to Sierra Club Suit
• Cleaner Air for the Four Corners Power Plant in New Mexico
• Documents Reveal Bush Administration’s Secret Deal with Oil Exec; Lawsuit Filed to Protect National Parks
• Rare Grasslands and Groundwater of Otero Mesa Threatened by Plans to Expand Oil and Gas Development in New Mexico
• Out West, a Major Source of Pollution Bites the Dust
• University of Wisconsin Required to Clean Up Dinosaur Coal Plant
• Plans for Insulation Plant in Oregon Abandoned; Global Warming Gases at Issue in Lawsuits
• Challenge to Stuart Generating Station Continues; New Study Directly Links Mercury Pollution to Coal-Fired Power Plants
• Cheney Energy Task Force Details Remain Hidden
• One Global Warming Case Wanes, Other Fronts Open