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Club Partners with Navajo, Hopi on Renewable Energy Plan
When the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, shut down at the end of 2005, environmental groups could have, as Sierra Club organizer Andy Bessler said, just "walked away and high-fived each other." But cleaner air and water weren't the only results of the closure. It also meant the loss of about 200 jobs -- many held by members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes. So the Sierra Club set to work with tribal groups and others to create a "Just Transition Plan" to establish a renewable energy infrastructure on tribal lands, providing jobs and electricity. MORE
This summer and fall, thousands of Sierra Club volunteers and staff are taking the Club’s message to the streets to engage environmental voters and turn out hundreds of thousands of “occasional” environmental voters on Election Day. MORE
While protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and our nation’s coasts from oil exploration have grabbed most of the headlines of late, the Sierra Club is also involved in a host of wildlands-related campaigns around the country, from working for the nation's first grasslands wilderness in South Dakota to promoting new wilderness in Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest. MORE
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