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• Sierra Club and Utility Agree to Landmark Global Warming Plan
• A Victory for Illinois Clean Air and National Tallgrass Prairie
• Defending New Mexico’s Renewable Energy Program
• Beaufort Sea Oil and Gas Leases in Alaska
• Judge Stops Bush Giveaway to Polluters at Oglethorpe Power
• Weston 4 Coal Plant Challenge Moves Forward; Commission Refers Case to Attorney General for Investigation
• Enviropower's Proposed Dirty Coal Plant Poses Environmental Problems for Illinois
• WV Coal Plant to Have Strict Pollution Controls Thanks to Settlement
• Challenging Secret Drilling Plans in the Arctic Nat’l Wildlife Refuge
• Stopping Secret Giveaways to Wisconsin Electric Power Company
• Delaware Sierra Club Looks to Forestall Backroom Deal between Oil Company and the Bush Administration

• Series of Wins for Democracy in the National Forests
• Grizzly Bear Fate Unknown in Montana
• Defending Aquatic Ecosystems along the Wide Missouri
• Saving Turkey Creek
• Land Swaps or Land Grabs: National Forests and Ski Resorts
• When Highways and Wildlands Intersect: Utah and Iowa
• Protecting the Sierra Nevada's National Forests
• Preventing Clearcutting in Arkansas' Hardwoods
• No More Roads through the Paradise Ridge Prairie in Idaho
• Efforts to Protect Mammoth Lakes Area Continue in the Sierra Nevada
• Protecting America’s Waterways: Multiple Cases
• Challenging Secret Drilling Plans in the Arctic Nat’l Wildlife Refuge
• Trails, Not ORVs in Washington State
• Coalition Fighting to Protect Alaska’s Northern Slope
• Rock Island Preserve Saved from Highway 100 in Iowa
• Protecting Steelhead Salmon in the Northwest
• Judge Upholds Motorized Boat Limit at Boundary Waters
• Protections Won for Snowy Plover Habitat in California
• Florida Panhandle at Risk; Court Orders Stop to Construction Projects for Now
• Historic Legacy Highway Settlement Passed in Utah
• Protecting Wisconsin's North Woods
• Challenging Timber Sales in the South
• Victory in the Lolo National Forest in Montana
• Stopping Logging Through the Boundary Waters Wilderness
• Sierra Club “Friendly” to Coastal Tidelands in South Carolina
• Yellowstone National Park Under Siege from Snowmobiles
• No More Mining at Zuni Salt Lake
• Protecting Bears from the Federal Exterminators
• Development Threatens Endangered Southern Steelhead
• Condos Threaten Coastal Dunes along Alabama's Coast
• Dirty Nationwide Dredge-and-Fill Permits Rejected
• Saving wetlands and wildlife from Utah's Legacy Highway

• A Victory for Illinois Clean Air and National Tallgrass Prairie
• Administration’s “Switcheroo” Thrown Out in Air Pollution Case
• Incinerator Rules Deemed Lacking in D.C. Court Ruling
• Supreme Court Sides with Local Farmers in Pesticide Suit
• Inactive Colorado Mine Wastes must be Reported, Rules Judge in 10th Circuit
• Alabama's Terrapin Creek Protected from Gold Mining Operation
• Workers, Sierra Club Concerned about Ammonia at Threemile Canyon CAFO
• Pollution Reduction Fleet Rules Upheld in South Coast Basin of CA
• Hazardous Waste Incinerator Poses Threat of Air Pollution in St. Louis Area
• Health of Tennesse Waterways Protected: Coal Mining Corp ordered to Stop Destructive Practices
• No More Mining at Zuni Salt Lake
• Radioactive Waste in Pacific Northwest
• No More Guessing on Air Emissions in California
• Georgia Pollution Plan Not Good Enough
• Cement Plant Threatens Air Quality in Missouri
• Efforts to Protect Mammoth Lakes Area Continue in the Sierra Nevada
• Circumventing Sprawl in Burlington, Vermont
• Challenging Sprawl Nationwide
• Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Unhealthy Factory Farm Pollution Rule
• Raising the Bar on Power Plant Pollution
• Tyson Forced to Clean Up Its Act
• Working to Stop Backroom Deals with Big Agriculture
• Clean-up Plans for Delaware Waters
• Supreme Court Upholds Strict Air Standards in the Imperial Valley
• Stopping Mercury Where it Starts: Chlorine Factories in the U.S.
• Victory in Maine Requires Pollution Control Measures to Combat Smog
• Demanding Adequate Regulation of Radioactive Wastes
• Cyanide Mining in Summit County, Colorado
• Bush Administration Ignored Hazardous Air Quality in Dallas-Fort Worth
• Maine’s Waters Safer with Halt of Aerial Spraying
• Proposed Lake Lanier Pollution Stopped by Georgia Supreme Court
• DC Seeks to Stop Toxic Trains at Risk from Terrorism
• Florida Panhandle at Risk; Court Orders Stop to Construction Projects for Now
• Historic Legacy Highway Settlement Passed in Utah
• Revoking Florida’s Free Pass to Pollute: Taking Away Water Permitting Rights
• Clean Water Safeguarded in West Virginia
• Coalition Victory in the Battle for a Living Wage
• Stopping mega-dairies in Northern California
• Protecting America’s Waterways: Multiple Cases
• Cleaner Water for Kansas Citizens
• Toxic Waste Cleanup Exemptions
• Hogs, Hogs, Everywhere Hogs
• Victory Over Animal Factory Pollution in Alabama
• California Animal Feedlots and Drinking Water
• Hatton Canyon Saved . . . Again
• State of the Air in St. Louis: Bush Administration Changes Horses in Midstream
• Delaware Sierra Club Looks to Forestall Backroom Deal between Oil Company and the Bush Administration
• Wisconsin Forced to Toughen Clean Air Permits
• Enforcing the Clean Air Act for California's Air
• Yellowstone National Park Under Siege from Snowmobiles
• Saving Turkey Creek
• Challenging Nike’s Greenwashing
• Defending Aquatic Ecosystems along the Wide Missouri
• Dirty Nationwide Dredge-and-Fill Permits Rejected
• Saving wetlands and wildlife from Utah's Legacy Highway

• Bush Administration Case Against Greenpeace Thrown Out
• Weighing in with the WTO

• Sierra Club and Utility Agree to Landmark Global Warming Plan
• A Victory for Illinois Clean Air and National Tallgrass Prairie
• Enviropower's Proposed Dirty Coal Plant Poses Environmental Problems for Illinois
• Weston 4 Coal Plant Challenge Moves Forward; Commission Refers Case to Attorney General for Investigation
• WV Coal Plant to Have Strict Pollution Controls Thanks to Settlement

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