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• People vs. Bush: Ignoring Supreme Court in Permitting New Coal Plant

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Air Pollution, Sierra Club, Utah, Utes, Inversion, Coal, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases

  The new coal plant proposed for eastern Utah got approved with no environmental curbs despite the U.S. Supreme Court's upholding of greenhouse gas... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• The Truth About Coal: Download Report Here

  Published: September 4, 2007, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Mining, Sierra Club, Utah, Coal, Renewable Energy, Robert Murray

  Besides the tragic and senseless deaths of nine miners at Crandall Canyon, there's the tragic and senseless propagandizing by mine owner Robert... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Power of MoveOn Scares Bush, Pentagon; Should Scare Lazy Corporate Media

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:19 am

  Tags: Bush, Iraq, Republican, Sierra Club

  Despite my obvious disgust with the Bush administration, their environmental wreck-ord, the war and everything else they've "accomplished," I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Sierra Club Targets Red Rock Wilderness, Grand Staircase Among 52 Places to Save

  Published: September 27, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Minnesota, Nature Conservancy, Nature, Illinois, Sierra Club, Utah, Maine, Wilderness

  There are lots of beautiful natural places that need to be saved from the onslaught of the Bush Regime and relentless drillers, developers, drivers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Power Plant Rejected Over Carbon Dioxide For First Time

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Power, Plant, Rejected, Over, Carbon, Dioxide, For, First, Time, Kansas, Roderick L Bremby, Kathleen Sebelius, Colorado, Bob Eye, Melvin Neufeld, Steve Miller, Truman Capote, Kansas Department Of Health Environment, Sierra Club, U S Republican Party, Florida, Fpl Group Inc

  The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health...

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• Power Plant Rejected Over Carbon Dioxide For First Time

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Power, Plant, Rejected, Over, Carbon, Dioxide, For, First, Time, Kansas, Roderick L Bremby, Kathleen Sebelius, Colorado, Bob Eye, Melvin Neufeld, Steve Miller, Truman Capote, Kansas Department Of Health Environment, Sierra Club, U S Republican Party, Florida, Fpl Group Inc

  The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit for a proposed coal-fired electricity generating plant, saying that the greenhouse gas threatens public health...

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• Real vs. Fake: No, It's Not About Those- It's Christmas Trees

  Published: December 3, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: Oil, Air, Pollution, Sierra Club

  year. Here are tips from the Sierra Club on choosing a tree: Cut trees generally come from tree farms. See if there’s an organic one near you on this list, or ask around at your local farmers’ market. Avoid buying trees with flocking (fake snow) on them, and be sure to have your tree composted or mulched after the holiday season is

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• Lawsuit Makes Utah National Energy, Environmental Battleground

  Published: December 4, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: California, Nuclear, Coal, Legislature, Power Grid, Renewable, Moms For Clean Air, Sierra Club

  This latest litigation between Pacificorp, owner of Rocky Mountain Power, and Los Angeles’ power company, is the latest fallout from the mushrooming controversy over both nuclear and coal power in Utah. Again, the people with the smallest voice in this shouting match are the people of Utah. But again, it’s the Utah state legislature

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• Victory! (Sort Of): Rocky Mountain Power Says No New Coal Plants for Ten Years

  Published: December 7, 2007, 6:50 pm

  Tags: Coal, Solar, Renewable, Inversion, Air, Pollution, Sierra Club, Utah Clean Air Alliance

  is GREAT! Tim Wagner of Sierra Club, who’s been instrumental in fighting the Delta expansion and other coal-powered schemes, should be a little more excited than his quote in this article. Of course, a lot of work remains. Great work, Tim. You’re the man!

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• MD-04: Sierra Club Endorses Donna Edwards

  Published: December 18, 2007, 10:23 am

  Tags: Md 04, Donna Edwards, Al Wynn, House 2008, Sierra Club

  And now she's got the Sierra Club: "We are very pleased to announce today that the Sierra Club officially endorses Donna Edwards for the Democratic nomination for Maryland's 4th Congressional District," said Betsy Johnson, Political Chair for the Maryland Chapter. "We are confident that she will continue work to protect Maryland's

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• FEMA Flip-Flops Again on Trailers

  Published: January 18, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fema, Flip Flops, Again, Trailers, James Mcintyre, U S General Services Administration, Baton Rouge, R David Paulison, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Sierra Club

  Those trailers the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought to house Hurricane Katrina victims were at the center of the storm again yesterday -- and not in a way that's going to make folks at the beleaguered agency any happier.

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• Good will write-down

  Published: February 21, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Sierra Club, Carl Pope, China, Globalization, Economy

  Carl Pope lays out with eye-opening clarity one dire result of globalization on the future of American business.The problem is not China. The problem is a business model in which companies outsource manufacturing under short-term, low-cost contracts to the firm that will follow their design standards most cheaply. All that is really Fisher-Price

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• Environmental Laws to Be Waived for Fence

  Published: April 2, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Environmental, Laws, Waived, For, Fence, Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, James L Connaughton, Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders Of Wildlife, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Bennie Thompson, Sierra Club, U S Department Of Homeland Security, U S House Commit

  The Bush administration will waive more than 30 environmental and land-management laws in order to finish building 470 miles of border fence in the Southwest by the end of the year, officials said yesterday.

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• Fighting the Border Fence

  Published: April 4, 2008, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Project Green, Michael Chertoff, Sierra Club, Texas, Defenders Of Wildlife, Brian Segee, League Of United Latin American Citizens, Environmental Protection, Nature And The Environment, Border Control And Customs

  Green groups challenge a bid to speed the border fence.

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• Saturday Links: Earth Day

  Published: April 19, 2008, 11:01 am

  Tags: Air Quality, Children S Asthma, Children S Health, Environment, Saturday Links, Air Quality Asthma, Billion Trees, Climate Change Asthma, Earth Day Festivals, Global Warming Asthma, Global Warming Petition, Nrdc, Owen Bailey, Paperless Chase, Sierra Club Videos, World W

  it? This Asthma Mom did. Sierra Club Videos: How to Save Energy at Home Owen Bailey installs a low-flow showerhead, a wrap for the water heater, and a programmable thermostat. Plus, he composts. Chase Will Pay the World Wildlife Fund for You to Go Paperless Simple, right? Switch from paper to online statements by April 30, and Chase donates

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