Immediate and Far-Reaching Climate Action

Coal emits toxic pollutants that make people sick, contaminate water, and drive planet-warming emissions. To eliminate this major threat, a diverse coalition led by the Sierra Club, with the support of philanthropy, launched the Beyond Coal campaign in 2002. The campaign aims to stop the development of new U.S. coal plants in the pipeline, retire the existing dirty coal fleet, address the impacts of coal mining, and replace coal with clean energy solutions.

What started as a state-level initiative, backed by a group of small foundations, has now evolved into a nationwide campaign with over $250 million in ...

At one point, a thriving band of tropical rainforests extended around the globe—from Brazil, to Africa, to Southeast Asia. For centuries, Indigenous peoples and local communities lived in and protected these vital ecosystems, which house nearly half of the world’s plant and animal species. However, due to economic and political incentives, people began cutting down tropical forests, making them more valuable as timber than standing. Today, tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate—a loss equivalent to 10 soccer fields per minute—to clear land for cattle ranching, agriculture, logging, mining, oil extraction, and dam-building. When tropical forests are destroyed, ...