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The latest opinion and analysis from NRDC’s science, legal, and policy experts.

On The Beach

Last weekend, as part of a worldwide effort to raise environmental consciousness, Jessica Lass, Noah Garrison and I joined 100 or so others to pick up trash...

October 27, 2009

Run, Run Away

Today the Port of Long Beach violated the public trust and sold out the citizens of Long Beach by approving a worthless settlement agreement with the American...

October 20, 2009

A Tale Of Two Parties

At Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights, California, a party was thrown recently to celebrate the City of Vernon's withdrawal of a proposal to build a huge...

September 30, 2009

A Stadium Full Of Excuses

The Los Angeles Rams used to play in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , a stadium that was built in 1923, used in the 1932 Olympics and used again in the 1984...

September 09, 2009

From Russia With Electric Rail

I was reading an article in the New Yorker by Ian Frazier about the Trans-Siberian railroad, the world's longest, when I ran across his statement that the rail...

August 22, 2009

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