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Border Pawns
The Department of the Interior is pulling park rangers and police from public lands across the nation and sending them to patrol the southern border. Ordering rangers and park police to relocate from their homes and deploying them as unofficial border security is an attempt by the Trump administration to subvert the law to perpetuate its xenophobic agenda.
Tell your members of Congress to put a stop to this misuse of park resources. |
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Minority Rule
On June 20, all 11 Republicans in the 30-member Oregon State Senate fled over the state line to Idaho to prevent the full Senate from passing a landmark climate change bill. The governor called on Oregon state troopers to locate the AWOL legislators and bring them back to the statehouse in Salem. “Send bachelors and come heavily armed,” one senator threatened in response.” The melodrama has ramifications beyond the boundaries of the Beaver State.
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| Ditch, Don’t Pitch
More than 1,500 plastic water bottles are discarded every second in the US, and fewer than one in ten is recycled. It’s estimated that by 2050 the ocean will contain more plastic by weight than fish. The Sierra Club is teaming up with Lonely Whale on a campaign to ditch plastic water bottles. Reducing the amount of plastic in our oceans will protect whales, seals, birds, and turtles, and help end our reliance on fossil fuels. Join us by committing to ditch single-use plastic bottles.
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Legal Team in High Gear
Earlier this month, the Sierra Club's legal team obtained a second court order blocking President Trump from diverting funds that Congress had denied for his border wall, and last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump's motion to have those injunctions stayed. “We need our democracy to hold firm over the last 18 months of Trump's horrific presidency,” says Pat Gallagher, director of the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program.
“We will run in high gear until January 2021.” |
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| Whitewashing History
Several civil rights and faith-based groups have joined the Sierra Club in challenging a permit for a massive fracked-gas compressor station along the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Union Hill, Va., a historically black community founded by freed slaves. Local residents say state agencies are trying to dodge environmental-justice concerns by relying on data that obscures the very existence of an African American community in Union Hill.
It's a case of whitewashing and greenwashing. |
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| Celebrate With Team Sierra
Whether it’s for your birthday, your wedding, your wedding anniversary, or just your favorite Tuesday of the year, Team Sierra wants to celebrate with you. Create a fundraising page and ask your friends and family to help protect our planet by donating in your honor. You’ll earn gifts from us as you fundraise, and when you’re helping save our planet, there’s even more to celebrate!
Create your celebration page. |
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| Underground Mapping Goes Deep
It’s easy to see how humans have altered lakes and rivers over the past 100 years. Less apparent is how a century of groundwater pumping has affected surface waters, but recent advances in computer mapping and modeling have begun to shed some light.
What hath pumping wrought? |
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Fresh or Frozen?
"Hey Mr. Green!" asks Michele in Brimley, Michigan. "I live in a rural location in northern Michigan and buy pantry goods and fresh produce at a local store. Is my carbon footprint smaller if I purchase fresh fruit and veggies or frozen produce? I normally buy fresh, but the frozen products are good in quality and price.”
The Sierra Club’s sage of sustainability ponders this puzzle. |
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