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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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GAO Report: Drinking Water at Risk from Underground Fracking Waste Injection

Press Release
WASHINGTON (July 28, 2014) – The Environmental Protection Agency’s program to protect drinking water sources from the underground injection of fracking waste needs improvement, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Underground injection of fracking waste has…

Farm Bureau Ducks NRDC Challenge to Debate Clean Water Rule

Press Release
WASHINGTON (July 15, 2014)—The American Farm Bureau Federation has tried to duck a challenge from the Natural Resources Defense Council to a public debate over the bureau’s willful misrepresentations regarding a new clean water proposal, which is now under assault…

NRDC Poll: Latinos want the government to protect water from pollution

Press Release
WASHINGTON (June 23, 2014)— As Senate Republicans try to kill recent steps by the Environmental Protection Agency to protect water supplies, a new poll finds that Latinos in four states overwhelmingly want the federal government to keep our water safe…

Spring-run Salmon Release Marks Progress in Restoring San Joaquin River

Press ReleaseCalifornia
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 17, 2014) – Today, for the first time in over 60 years, spring run Chinook salmon returned to the San Joaquin River when the San Joaquin River Restoration Program released 54,000 juvenile into California’s second largest…