Here’s the TOC from the 5/1/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents — Secretly Shipping Toxic Waste
Volume VI, #62
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“This is a mammoth undertaking. It doesn’t end today. Global warming, climate change is one of the biggest ecological threats the environment has ever faced, and it’s going to require work every day, every week, every month and every year.”

– Canadian Environment Minister John Baird, announcing a series of greenhouse gas emissions cuts for the country’s industrial sector.

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Table of Contents

(1) Army: Secretly Shipping Toxic Waste

(2) Energy: Green Pepsi?

(3) Take Action: Fight Global Warming — Oppose Liquid Coal!

(4) Take Action: Incentives for Efficiency!

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Here’s the TOC from the 4/24/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Sierra Students Break the Addiction
Volume VI, #61
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“Don’t touch me.”

– Karl Rove gets angry while discussing global warming with Sheryl Crow over dinner.

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Table of Contents

(1) Victory: Sierra Students Break the Addiction

(2) Gulf Coast: Arbor Day of Action

(3) Take Action: Extend Energy Efficiency

(4) Take Action: Save the Endangered Species Act

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Here’s the TOC from the 4/17/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Protecting Kids from Toxic Toys
Volume VI, #60
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“What has allowed so many [psychopathic personalities] to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can’t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody’s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! F— habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!”

Kurt Vonnegut
November 11, 1922 — April 11, 2007

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Table of Contents

(1) Carl Pope to Congress — Take Action: Increase Fuel Economy

(2) Victory: Protecting Kids from Toxic Toys

(3) Water: Nor’easter Floods Basements with Sewage

(4) Take Action: Protect Our Coasts

Also, much like the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club is asking you to submit an Earth Day resolution - this time, in photo form:

IT TAKES 2

Two what, you ask? Scientists say we can curb global warming and its consequences if we take actions to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050. That’s a do-able 2 percent cut a year for each of the next 40 years. We all need to pitch in — you, me, businesses, government. Send us a photo of what you’re doing to cut your carbon emissions, and we’ll post it here. Check out what other folks are doing. Don’t forget — It Takes 2.

So next time you cook up a nice juicy Boca Burger or order some vegan donuts to go, take a moment to snap a quick photo before (or, even better, while) digging in. Show the “green carni’s” (a contradiction if there ever was one) that the single best thing you can do for the environment is go veg.

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Here’s the TOC from the 4/10/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Doctors Prescribe Cleaner Air
Volume VI, #59
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“The president still doesn’t get it.”

- Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)in response to President Bush’s “additions” to the Supreme Court ruling that the EPA must regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles as pollution.

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(1) Victory: Protecting Our Forests

(2) Utah: Doctors Prescribe Cleaner Air - Read more about the doctors’ recommendations and find out how to get cleaner air in your area.

(3) Take Action: Wilderness Revival

(4) Take Action: Step It Up!

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Here’s the TOC from the 4/3/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Are You Part of the Solution?
Volume VI, #58
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“The use of the word ‘judgment’ is not a roving license to ignore the statutory text.”

– Supreme Court ruling criticizing the Bush Administration’s inaction on global warming

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(1) Victory: EPA Must Address Global Warming

(2) Global Warming: Are You Part of the Solution?

(3) Take Action: Save Our Salmon!

(4) Take Action: Stand Up for Clean Water!

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Here’s the TOC from the 3/27/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Permission Denied
Volume VI, #57
Tuesday, March 27,2007

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Quote of Note:

“You’re not making the rules. You used to when you did this [waves gavel]. Elections have consequences. So I make the rules.”

– Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in response to Sen. Inhofe’s (R-OK) bad behavior toward Al Gore at a global warming hearing last week.

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(1) Victory: Permission Denied

(2) Chavez: Remembering a Great Man

(3) Take Action: Curb Global Warming!

(4) Take Action: Trade for a Better Environment!

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UPDATE, 3/28/07:

Here’s a similar alert and sample letter from The Sierra Club.

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ExxonMobil Must Take Responsibility

Via SaveOurEnvironment.org:

Exxon - Pay the victims!

It’s been 18 years since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and ExxonMobil still has not paid the punitive damages it owes to the victims of the spill.

The oil spill destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of Alaskan fishermen and others, and decimated wildlife.

Instead of paying what it owes, ExxonMobil has dragged more than 30,000 people through 13 years of litigation by appealing every guilty verdict it’s been given since 1994! During this time 6,000 people have died waiting for compensation.

Click here now to send a fax to ExxonMobil’s CEO and Board Chair and tell them to stop appealing the guilty verdicts and pay the damages they owe.

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Here’s the TOC from the 3/20/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Sierra Club, Utility Strike Landmark Deal
Volume VI, #56
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“The biggest danger is we won’t do enough soon enough.”

– Ted Turner on climate change

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(1) Energy: Sierra Club, Utility Strike Landmark Deal

(2) New Hampshire: The People Have Spoken

(3) Alaska: Clean Water Victory

(4) Take Action: Wilderness Revival!

(5) Take Action: Restore Clean Water Protections!

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Here’s the TOC from the 3/13/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

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Sierra Club Currents - Ten Top Park Picks
Volume VI, #55
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

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Quote of Note:

“This budget sends an unmistakable message to people who are concerned about our health and a clean environment — you are not a high priority.”

- Sen. Boxer (D-CA) questioning EPA Administrator Steven Johnson on the agency budget proposal that includes a $400 million cut to wastewater treatment projects, a $35 million cut to air pollution monitoring and a $7 million cut for the toxic waste cleanup program.

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(1) Get Outside: Ten Top Park Picks

(2) Victory: Court Protects Sacred Lands

(3) Take Action: Wilderness Revival!

(4) Take Action: Make Your Car Go Farther on a Gallon of Gas!

(5) Send an Ecard: Tell Some Friends to Get Green This St. Patrick’s Day

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Via The Sierra Club:

Help Save the Polar Bear

The Bush administration may not have seen the light — but they have seen the heat from global warming. Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced the Bush Administration’s intention to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, citing global warming and the significant loss of sea ice the bears need for hunting as the principal reason. The Sierra Club supports all efforts to protect the polar bear — including this listing effort, even though designation as an endangered species without bold, comprehensive action on global warming will not be enough to save the animal.

Until our nation decreases its reliance on the polluting energy sources that cause global warming, the polar ice caps will continue to melt away. Some analysts believe the arctic icecap could totally disappear by the year 2050, which would be a catastrophe for polar bears and us.

Let Secretary Kempthorne know today that you support saving the polar bear through a combination of federal protection and responsible energy policy.

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