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Thu, May 15, 2008
Beckygillette
The Mississippi Small Business Administration has announced that Becky Gillette, a business journalist and longtime Mississippi Sierra Club activist, ...
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Wed, May 14, 2008
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People in wealthy, carbon-spewing countries tend to express less concern over global warming than their counterparts in countries with smaller carbon ...
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Feature: Iowa BioFuels Report

Getting to a Sustainable Biofuels Future: Iowa has made a huge investment in corn-based ethanol and reaped some benefits from the biofuels boom-but not without costs to the environment and the economy. Now it's time for Iowa to make the investments needed to transition to the next generation of biofuels and boost renewable energy production. Destination Iowa, the first report in an exciting new partnership between the Sierra Club and the Worldwatch Institute, explains where Iowa's bioeconomy is today, where it can go in the future, and charts a course for getting there. Learn more.



Feature: Groups Demand Action on Gender-Bending Chemicals

On June 5, 2007, Sierra Club and other environmental, public health, labor and commercial fishing groups formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to take action to protect the environment and public health from a toxic chemical used in detergents and commercial cleaners. This chemical has been shown to disrupt the development and reproductive systems of fish, causing male fish to produce female egg proteins, for example.

Consumer Products Threaten Aquatic Life - What You Can Do
Read more about toxic laundry detergent
Q&A: Learn more about these toxic chemicals
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