CALL TO ACTION!

We need YOU to make a difference for Tennessee!

Welcome to our Call to Action page! Here, we will regularly highlight environmental issues that are impacting Tennessee's rivers and streams. We will also report on national events in need of conservation support and efforts. Check this page often if you would like to keep current on issues that you might not hear about from the local media.

Sign Up For Free Legislative Updates By Email!

Want to know what your state legislators are doing for the environment? Not sure who your Tennessee legislators are? Click here to sign up for legislative updates and to learn more about your legislators and their scorecards! Find out first-hand about Tennessee General Assembly voting sessions before they happen and learn how you can make a difference for the environment. TSRA is proud to support Tennessee Conservation Voters by offering you a link to these free email updates!

Sign the Petition to TVA for Clean Energy not Coal

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is poised to invest over a billion dollars in an outdated, dirty coal plant to keep it running at a time when other major electricity providers are choosing 21st century options that are cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient. Instead of wasting our money on a fossil plant that will continue to pollute our air, water, land and climate, TVA needs to replace the Gallatin Coal Plant with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Sierra Club, Tennessee Environmental Council, and TSRA have joined forces to call on TVA board members to reconsider TVA's plans to invest over $1 billion to keep the Gallatin Fossil Plant running and asking them to retire the Gallatin Fossil Plant and invest in energy efficiency instead to protect our economy, our environment, and our health.
As you know, this is a critical, urgent issue that requires immediate action. TVA is making their decision on the future of the Gallatin plant in early February.
Click this link to view and join the sign-on letter: http://bit.ly/UR3boS

Tennessee's Bottle Bill Project

The 2009 "Tennessee Beverage Container Recycling Act" has been finalized and is in the pipeline. Our job now is to make sure legislators know that Tennesseanswanta bottle bill. Now is the time to contact all of your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to spread the word that Tennessee needs their help!

Click here to learn more about the Bottle Bill Project and what you can do to help!

Help Restore Wilderness to Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is accepting public comment on 4 management plan alternatives. Alternative 3 and 4 would create an alternative wilderness waterway allowing much greater solitude. 3 and 4 also curtail the use of motorboats in parts of the park for solitude and to protect resources that they have been destroying.

The motorboaters are commenting in great numbers, something like 5 to 1 over paddlers, asking for alternative 1 which has almost no changes from the old plan. Please get the word out to your paddling friends and clubs. Don't let the power boaters decide this.

Check out the plans here, http://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=374&projectId=11170&documentID=26021

Comment here, http://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?parkID=374&projectID=11170&documentId=26021