Illinois Chapter Sierra Club: Survey - Sierra Club's Greatest Hits! Vote and Win!!

Sierra Club's Greatest Hits! Vote and Win!!

It's amazing what a volunteer organization can accomplish in 50 years! Here's a list of some of our favorite victories - help us decide the best of the best! You can also suggest a Sierra Club victory of your own for consideration!
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Please choose up to five of your favorites.

Question - Not Required - Please pick your top 5 favorite victories!
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	1959 - Built Strong Illinois Support For Protection of America's Public Lands
	1970 - Helped Establish Goose Lake Prairie State Park
	1972 - Helped Create Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
	1976 - Blocked a proposed dam on the Middle Fork of the Vermillion River, later designated a National Wild & Scenic River
	1977 - Defeated Proposed Wabash Coal Barge Canal
	1979 - Banned logging in Illinois State Parks with IL Supreme Court Victory
	1980's - Co-founding the North Branch Prairie Project, and the global volunteer habitat restoration movement
	1980 - Electing pro-environment Democrats and Republicans to local, state, and federal office
	1982 - Rock Island Trail
	1986 - Illinois Solid Waste Management Act & County Recycling Programs
	1990 - Seven wilderness areas on the Shawnee National Forest
	1990 - Ended logging on the Shawnee National Forest with court victory
	1993 - Stopping the Lake Calumet Airport proposed in the middle of 2000 acres of wetlands
	1996 - 500 acres of protected Lake Michigan Shoreline at Ft. Sheridan
	1996 - Creation of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie out of the former Joliet Army Ammunitions Plant
	1996 - Repealed state subsidies for waste incinerators, stopped up to 25 garbage burners
	1996 - Started the Safer Pest Control Poject
	1997 - Water Sentinels teams monitoring water quality across Illinois
	1999 - Kept state prison out of prairie habitat at Lost Mound National Wildlife Refuge (former Savanna Army Depot)
	2003 - Strong new "antidegradation" criteria for reviewing proposals for new water pollution
	2004 - Kept 4-wheelers (ATVs) out of Illinois state parks by defeating legislation to let them in
	2004 - New limits on nutrient pollution from new sewage plants
	2006 - Banned Disposal of Car Parts Containing Mercury
	2006 - Banned phosphorus from diswashing detergent
	2006 - Blocked proposed dam on Sugar Creek
	2006 - Helped elect Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate
	2006 - Clean energy agrement with City of Springfield
	2006 - Toughest mercury emissions limits in the country on coal burning power plants
	2007 - Requirement that 25% of Illinois' electricity come from renewable sources by 2025
	2008 - Stopped proposed Indeck coal plant next to the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
	2009 - Stopped proposed Enviropower coal plant
	2009 - New state programs to reduce natural gas use
	2009 - An energy-efficient statewide building code

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