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HISTORICAL RESULTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

• Doubled fuel efficiency standards - The requirement that new cars get 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 will save us 1.3 million barrels of oil a day and cut annual carbon emissions by more than 220 million tons. The policy also promises to double overall fuel economy to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025
  
• Oversaw one of the largest expansions of wilderness protections in decades
   
• Under President Obama, the EPA declared greenhouse gases a threat to human health
  
• Approved 13 commercial-scale solar facilities on public lands to power 1.5 million homes
   
• Approved the first-ever offshore wind project
   
• Created hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs

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Occupy Atlanta

What is Occupy Atlanta? Interviews 10-13-2011 from Ryan Winsor on Vimeo.

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Keeping the Flame Alive - Sparklers Made in USA

Not only are sparklers hardly­ an American invention, they’d no longer be an American-made product were it not for Diamond Sparkler, the last remaining sparkler maker in the United States. The small Youngstown manufacturer is single-handedly keeping the flame alive for American sparklers — and helping boost the spirit of a town that could use a little light.

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In the Company of Animals, Healing for Humans

Miss Mejia-Schnaufer, 21, and Sophie met at the Gentle Barn, a six-acre ranch in Santa Clarita, Calif. The facility heals and rehabilitates abused farm animals and invites visitors with emotional and physical challenges to interact with them. Bonding with Sophie was “a life-changing experience,” says Miss Mejia-Schnaufer, whose battle with depression and eating disorders led to a suicide attempt this year. She credits Sophie, a rescue from an abusive petting zoo, with making her recovery possible.

“Before I came to the Gentle Barn, nothing gave me hope that life was worth living,” she says. “But when I met Sophie, I thought she had the most incredible calm and open energy. There was this flow of love back and forth between us that I was feeling so in need of.”

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