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Special Features:
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Union Blue + Sierra Club Green = Better Jobs!
The Sierra Club is one of the
founding organizations of the BlueGreen Alliance, representing 12 of our country's largest unions and environmental organizations.
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Big Corporations Rule Capitol in 2012 Session
The GA Legislature adjourned the 2012 session shortly after midnight on March 29. Even more than usual, only giant corporations came out the big winners. On the bright side, thanks to your
calls and emails, environmental damage was kept to a bare minimum.
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Legislature Fails to Address Regional Transit Governance
Metro Atlanta Transit has always been hampered by the fact that its 'regional' transit service provider, MARTA, has been limited to serving
the two counties of Fulton and DeKalb that voted in a 1% sales tax to support it in 1971.
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Sierra Club-Sponsored Conference Explores
Southeast's Offshore Wind Potential
In March the Sierra Club sponsored the first ever Southeast Atlantic Regional Offshore Wind Conference, held in Charlotte. Over 300 businesspeople, environmentalists, politicians,
and government officials attended the ground-breaking sessions.
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Proposed EPD Rules Give Free Pass to Factory Farm Polluters
Every year, Georgia raises and slaughters some 1.4 billion meat chickens (broilers), the largest producing state in the country. In fact if Georgia were a country, we'd be the sixth
largest producing country in the world.
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