Sierra Club Foundation
For The Sierra Club's Natural Gas Regulation Project
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/16/2010
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The purpose of this grant is to address a pair of sometimes conflicting environmental challenges. One is to reduce the impact to the environment and public health by minimizing the damages associated with the extraction of natural gas, particularly those impacts that occur through unconventional drilling methods such as hydraulic fracturing. The second is to insure that natural gas can remain an affordable alternative to coal-fired generation as a transitional source of lower carbon power generation. New baseload natural gas generates about 60% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than coal-fired generation, making it a viable low carbon alternative.
This funding will support the Sierra Club's "Getting it RIgh on Natural Gas" campaign that will work to insure that the country has adequate supplies of natural gas, and that the gas is produced in ways that provide minimal damage.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sierraclubfoundation.org
Address
2101 Webster Street, Suite 1250, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Clean Transportation for All campaign
The Sierra Club Foundation was founded in 1960 to administer funds in support of scientific, educational, charitable, and literary efforts to preserve, protect, and restore the natural environment. The Sierra Club Foundation’s Clean Transportation for All campaign aims to reduce climate and air pollution, create jobs, and expand access to transportation by ensuring that 100% of the road vehicle fleet in the U.S. is electric. This grant supports the program’s plans to work within federal regulatory and state policy to advance clean trucks and buses and secure funds for EV charging infrastructure. (Substrategy: Electrification)
for the Beyond Coal campaign
The Sierra Club Foundation’s Beyond Coal Campaign is focused on reducing global warming emissions and other air pollutants by transitioning away from fossil-fired electricity and toward clean-energy sources in the United States. The campaign aims for a 100 percent clean electricity system by 2030 to improve air and water quality, protect land and wildlife, develop an efficient and resilient economy, and ensure that the U.S. meets and exceeds its international climate change commitments.
