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On a related front, NRDC -- along with the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups -- is taking the Bush Administration back to court for missing the legal deadline for deciding whether to protect polar bears from the ravages of global warming under the Endangered Species Act. "We cannot allow the Bush Administration and Congress to stall any longer," said NRDC President Frances Beinecke. "Climate change is accelerating and the window for taking action to avert the most disastrous outcomes is narrowing."
In February, scientists studying satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula were alarmed to discover that an enormous ice sheet -- measuring roughly ten times the area of Manhattan -- was on the verge of collapse due to rapid melting. At the opposite pole of the Earth, satellite data for the past year revealed the steepest decline in perennial Arctic sea ice on record. To help stave off catastrophic consequences worldwide, NRDC is fighting on Capitol Hill to ensure that the pollution-cutting provisions in America's Climate Security Act are as stringent as possible. We are shoring up support for an amendment to the bill that would reduce global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. At the same time, we are preparing to fend off any proposed amendments that would weaken the bill's targets and timetables. Our partner group, the NRDC Action Fund, has launched a new national ad campaign to counter industry's message that America cannot afford global warming legislation. The Action Fund ad is reaching millions of Americans about the benefits -- both environmental and economic -- of passing strong legislation to combat global warming.
Tell Congress to pass a strong global warming bill by going to www.NRDCActionFund.org.
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One of the NRDC Action Fund's newspaper ads on the climate crisis
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