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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.
Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future.
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.
Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.
Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.
Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
At least 3,527 U.S. monthly records for heat, rain, and snow were broken in 2012. We can't let this continue unchecked, and we don't have to.
I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.
Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.
Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.
Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.
Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.
Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.