<div id="subtitle">New Sierra Club leader once told Home Depot patrons not to buy lumber from ancient forests</div><div><p>Environmental group Sierra Club has named its first new leader in 18 years — an activist who once took over the intercom of a Home Depot to tell customers not to ...

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The venerable Sierra Club on Wednesday appointed a 38-year-old executive director with a history of getting big companies to sign onto environmental efforts and a focus on climate change.</p><p>California-based Sierra Club is one of the biggest U.S. environmental groups and has taken on ...

<div id="subtitle">Environmentalists staging nationwide protests in battle to end mountaintop removal mining</div><div><p>Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.</p&gt ...

<div id="subtitle">EPA to delay 79 mountaintop coal mining permits in 4 states, citing risk to water quality</div><div><p>President Barack Obama's administration put the brakes on 79 applications for surface coal mining permits in four states Wednesday, saying they would violate the Clean Water Act.</p ...