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"At the national level, lobbying on the issues are 12 major environmental organizations with a wide range in experience, size, style, and philosophy. The mainstream Sierra Club (650,000 members), for example, prefers grassroots action, while the more radical Earth First (15,000 members) shuns the strategy of lobbying Congress directly and prefers to use 60s-style protest and street theater to further its agenda. The EDF (150,000 members) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (125,000 members) prefer legal action and employing lawyers to lobby and litigate. Greenpeace (1.4 million members) has built its powerful organization by emphasizing direct action rather than lobbying Congress. "We're not going to play by our opponents' rules," says Hind. "We don't have their money or staffs. Instead, we believe in going over their lobbyists' heads directly to the people."

Sounds like the Enviro's can do a pretty good lobbyin job too....or convince the courts to do what the legislators won't.