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Kari Birdseye

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California advocacy and California climate change policy, natural climate solutions

Jesús Canchola Sánchez

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Midwestern regional issues

Emily Deanne

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Energy efficiency and decarbonization, buildings, food and agriculture, industrial policy and hydrogen

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Power sector, transportation and vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear power, energy transmission, RTOs, and siting

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Southeastern regional issues

Janet Fang

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China-based climate, energy and wildlife

Margie Kelly

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Water, Canada, toxics

Ivan Moreno

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Environmental justice and Chicago-based environmental issues

Ben Schaefer

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Emerging climate and energy policy

Andrew Scibetta

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Lands, oceans, wildlife, liquefied natural gas (LNG)

Rita Yelda

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Eastern regional issues

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DOE’s Petroleum Council Dead Wrong on Arctic Drilling

Press Release
WASHINGTON (March 27,2015) - The National Petroleum Council, the largely industry-based oil and gas advisory committee to the Department of Energy, released a study Friday predicting the twilight of oil production through fracking and calling for drilling in the Arctic…

House Budget An Assault on Our Health and Environment

Press Release
WASHINGTON (March 25, 2015) – The Republican-led House today passed a 2016 federal budget resolution. David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, made this comment:

Oregon Advances Climate Leadership with Clean Fuels Program

Press Release
SALEM, OR (March 11, 2015) – Governor Kate Brown signed into law today Senate Bill 324 extending Oregon’s Clean Fuels Standard. The standard requires the oil industry to cut carbon pollution from transportation fuels by 10% over the next ten…

NRDC Sues EPA to Force Action on Monarch Butterflies

Press Release
WASHINGTON (February 27, 2015)—The Natural Resources Defense Council today accused the Environmental Protection Agency of dragging its feet on efforts to save the imperiled monarch butterfly and filed suit to force the agency to act.

New Study: Rapid Ocean Acidification Threatens Coastal Economies in 15 States

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NEW YORK (February 23, 2015) – The first nationwide vulnerability assessment for ocean acidification, published today in Nature Climate Change, shows that coastal communities in 15 states that depend on the nation’s approximately $1 billion shelled mollusk (e.g., oysters and…

Praising Pullman: NRDC Supports New National Monument Designations

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CHICAGO (February 18, 2015) – President Obama will be in Chicago tomorrow to sign an order designating the city’s Pullman District as a national monument. He is also expected to announce two other new monuments, Browns Canyon in Colorado and…

Groups Go To Court to Protect Blueback Herring from Extinction

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Washington, D.C. – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of fishing and watershed protection groups filed a complaint today in federal court seeking to reverse a decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) not to list…

Green Leaders Urge President to Ban Bee-Killing Insecticides

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WASHINGTON (February 5, 2015) — Top officials of leading environmental groups representing millions of Americans today urged President Obama to take strong and swift action against neonicotinoid insecticides that are devastating honey bee and wild bee populations, threatening the nation’s…

NRDC Airline Scorecard: First-ever ranking of Airline Biofuel Use

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SAN FRANCISCO (February 3, 2015) – Air travel emits more than 650 million metric tons of carbon pollution annually – equivalent to the pollution from 136 million cars– making the increased use of sustainable biofuels a critical to reducing the…

Illinois Tollways to Become Butterfly Highways

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CHICAGO (January 29, 2015) – Today, the Illinois Tollway Authority agreed to work with the Natural Resources Defense Council to create a monarch butterfly restoration program that would plant milkweed along the agency’s 286 miles of roadways. The plant is…