8 |
Estimated miles per gallon GM's Hummer H1 gets in city driving. The Toyota Prius gets 52. For information on the Club's Auto Accountability Campaign, go to www.sierraclub.org/freedompackage. |
40 |
Percentage of U.S. waterways that do not meet current EPA standards. |
54 |
U.S. senators who voted to reject oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
55 |
Eight-hour days the average American driver spends behind the wheel each year. |
863 |
Inner City Outings trips led in 2002 by 46 groups in the United States and Canada.
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Across the Water: Participants on a Raleigh ICO trip check out the sights. |
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1,000 |
Grizzly bears left in the wild in the continental United States. |
75,000 |
Public comments (the most ever received) on the Northern Plains Grasslands Management Plan, helping to secure new wilderness recommendations. |
1,352,100 |
Voters reached by the Sierra Club's voter education campaign in the
11 states in which it was active in 2002. |
2.5 million |
Hogs killed by a single industrial operation in one year, creating waste output greater than the entire city of Los Angeles. |
13 million |
Dollars contributed to members of Congress by the oil and gas industry, which would have received tax breaks worth $14.8 billion if the energy bill had passed. |
14 million |
Americans using public transportation on a typical weekday. |
1 billion |
Adolescents worldwide who are entering their peak productive years. |
6 billion |
Current world population, which represents a doubling of people in the past 40 years. |