Earth Day is the one of the biggest days of the year around the Nevada Conservation League and NCL Education Fund. Miranda Fisher and Launce Rake represented the organizations at a number of events in Southern Nevada over the busy weekend.

Miranda and Launce both gathered signatures in support of the U.S. EPA’s ability to regulate unhealthy carbon pollution for new coal plants at GREENFest in Town Square in Las Vegas on Saturday.

The dynamic duo split up on Sunday. Miranda held down the fort at the Party for the Planet at Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay. Party for the Planet is a free annual Earth Day event hosted in connection with Association of Zoos & Aquariums, while Launce joined dozens of marchers with the Moapa Band of the Paiute Indians and other Native American nations, plus the Sierra Club, as they marched about 50 miles from Moapa to downtown Las Vegas to protest the Reid Gardner coal plant, which has spewed carbon and other toxic emissions over the Moapa Paiute community for decades.

The cumulative impact of these and dozens of other events, large and small across Nevada, were to emphasize Nevada’s growing importance as a leader in clean, renewable energy development!