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	<title>OhioSierraClub.org</title>
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		<title>Sierra Club, Dayton Church, and Interfaith Power and Light Team Up for Energy Efficiency!</title>
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Sierra Club, Ohio Interfaith Power and Light, and Westminster Presbyterian Church teamed up to promote energy efficiency!
Through energy efficient lighting, control systems, and cooling equipment, Westminster Presbyterian Church has saved $50,000 in the last 5 years on their energy bills!  If this beautiful, historic church in Dayton can do it, so can all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=1124</link>
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		<title>Stronger action against antibiotic abuse in food animal production is needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture is widely known, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is still allowing the prevention of disease to be included in the definition as a therapeutic use of antibiotics.Ask them to take stronger action to control the widespread use of antibiotics in food animal production.
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		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=1103</link>
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		<title>Protect our Water by Stopping Mosquito Spraying in Lake County, OH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lake County General Health District sprays toxic chemicals for mosquito and West Nile Virus control throughout the community annually. However, there are only 2 human cases reported in the past 5 years. Meanwhile the expensive toxic chemicals are killing benefitial insects and fish. Urge your county officials to explore alternative ways like rain garden to control mosquitos and stop spraying hazardous chemicals into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=1071</link>
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		<title>Sierra Club takes action to Stop the Spraying of Toxic Chemicals in Lake County Ohio</title>
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Every summer, Lake County General Health District sprays toxic chemicals for mosquito control throughout the county. While there is little benefit from spraying, there are high public health, economic, and ecological cost.  Sierra Club and local advocates are working together to explore non-chemical alternatives to mosquito spraying.
The chemicals used for spraying, like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=1059</link>
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		<title>Streamside with the Water Conservation Coordinator</title>
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What’s new with the clean water campaign?
Well we have been busy here along the streamside. The Aveda Institute Columbus has been a major supporter of the Sierra Club’s Clean Water Campaign. In April 2010, Aveda expanded our partnership across the State, increasing the number of communities involved in water quality issues and raised close to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=1047</link>
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		<title>OEPA Impaired Waters Report</title>
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 Every two years, states are required to submit a list of Impaired Waters to the US EPA for approval.  Impaired waters are those waters that are not meeting state water quality standards as defined by the Clean Water Act. On June 14, 2010 the Ohio EPA published their Final Integrated Water Quality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=994</link>
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		<title>Protect Our Water at the Source; Tell the OEPA that Ohio needs Nutrient Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The water in Ohio is turning green and toxic. Nutrient pollution from manure, fertilizers, and sewer systems increasingly threaten our water quality. Ohio&#8217;s water quality is as bad or worse as it was in 1972 when the Clean Water Act was introduced. Nutrient pollution containing nitrates and phosphorous fuel algal blooms that are harmful to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=984</link>
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		<title>Black Lung Victims, Not Coal Industry, to Pay for Oversight!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the Ohio Senate refused to require the coal industry to pay their fair share of oversight.  Instead, Ohio&#8217;s coal industry has come up with a new proposal which the Ohio legislature has passed: to raid the state&#8217;s Black Lung Fund. The Ohio Bureau of Workers&#8217; Compensation manages this fund specifically to help individuals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=937</link>
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		<title>Will Lake Erie be Dead Again?  OEPA Phosphorous Task force Releases Final Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us live along or have visited the shores of Lake Erie. Lake Erie is not just a state treasure but is also of international importance as the 11th largest lake in the world. The Great Lakes are the world’s largest freshwater eco-system and while Erie only has 2% of the water it contains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=895</link>
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		<title>Ohio Sierra Club Releases National Report on U.S. Oil Dependence!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ohio Sierra Club, in partnership with the American Security Project, released a report, &#8220;Ending Our Dependence on Oil&#8221; later this week that examined the link between global climate change and our nation&#8217;s security.  Right now, the BP oil spill &#8211; the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history &#8211; continues to unfold in the Gulf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohiosierraclub.org/?p=881</link>
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