ADVOCACY: Doing for clean energy what John Muir did for preservation -- Monday, December 9, 2013 -- www.eenews.net

ADVOCACY: Doing for clean energy what John Muir did for preservation -- Monday, December 9, 2013 -- www.eenews.net:


"Part of the Sierra Club's modern work on the legislative front also involves dipping its toes into the recently successful push to reform Senate rules that lead to filibusters and holdups of nominations, as well as voting rights. To that end, the club was a co-founder earlier this year of the Democracy Initiative along with Communication Workers of America, Greenpeace and the NAACP. It jumped into the immigration debate this year and also launched an internal democracy program this past summer.

"This is about access, and if our voice is being drowned out at the ballot box, that hurts all of us," said Courtney Hight, the organization's new democracy director."



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