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The Sierra Club is an environmental organization that educates, promotes, and attempts to fight off climate change, pollution, as well as inequality. Formed over 125 years ago the Sierra club aims to form legisislature by pressing bills that can help the environment or support farmers and other workers in neighbroing fields.
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JURISDICTION - ... proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects:
Air pollution.
Construction and maintenance of highways.
Environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands.
Environmental effects of toxic substances, other than pesticides.
Environmental policy.
Environmental research and development.
Fisheries and wildlife.
Flood control and improvements of rivers and harbors, including environmental aspects of deepwater ports.
Noise pollution.
Nonmilitary environmental regulation and control of nuclear energy.
Ocean dumping.
Public buildings and improved grounds of the United States generally, including Federal buildings in the District of Columbia.
Public works, bridges, and dams.
Regional economic development.
Solid waste disposal and recycling.
Water pollution.
Water resources.
MISSION STATEMENT: ... EPA works to ensure that:
Americans have clean air, land and water;
National efforts to reduce environmental risks are based on the best available scientific information;
Federal laws protecting human health and the environment are administered and enforced fairly, effectively and as Congress intended;
Environmental stewardship is integral to U.S. policies concerning natural resources, human health, economic growth, energy, transportation, agriculture, industry, and international trade, and these factors are similarly considered in establishing environmental policy;
All parts of society--communities, individuals, businesses, and state, local and tribal governments--have access to accurate information sufficient to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks;
Contaminated lands and toxic sites are cleaned up by potentially responsible parties and revitalized; and
Chemicals in the marketplace are reviewed for safety.
About the sierra club. Sierra Club. (n.d.). https://www.sierraclub.org/about-sierra-club
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. (n.d.). https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/home
Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). EPA. https://www.epa.gov/