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Not Allowed in “Families for Coal” Group: Families

8/14/2009 // Miles Grant

I hopped in the National Wildlife Federation Prius yesterday to drive from our headquarters in Reston, VA to the Netroots Nation blogger conference here in Pittsburgh, PA. Every 30 miles or so along the side of the highway in Pennsylvania,… Read more >

Coal’s Dirty Money Funding Anti-Climate Bill Campaign

8/4/2009 // Miles Grant

The coal industry and utilities have already spent an incredible $77.8 million on lobbying Congress this year. And that figure doesn’t even include all those television ads that bombard the cable news channels all day trying to tell us how… Read more >

Catchphrases Won’t Solve Climate Change

12/29/2008 // Shreema Mehta

You’ve probably been hearing a lot about “clean coal” as one of the paths we can take to a new energy future., but while it sounds nice, the truth is: “clean coal” does not exist. ”Clean coal” is used to… Read more >

Courageous Kansas Governor Takes a Stand

3/24/2008 // Larry Schweiger

Kudos to the leadership of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius for her courageous stand on Friday to veto the state’s forced approval of two coal fired power plants. The Governor’s Secretary of Health and the Environment withheld approval for the plants… Read more >

Be A Good Neighbor to Wildlife

3/14/2008 // Danielle Brigida

The #1 thing us homo-sapiens can do to help wildlife today and here on out is reduce our global warming pollution. Knowing this, the National Wildlife Federation just introduced a pretty sweet new program to show you how easy it… Read more >

10 Best Green Stories of 2007

12/28/2007 // Josh Nelson

Grist has an excellent post called The Top Green Stories of 2007.  While they highlighted some of the biggest news, good and bad, I tried to focus on the most positive developments, some of which didn’t get the media attention… Read more >

Energy Bill Signed into Law

12/19/2007 // Josh Nelson

Wildlife to Benefit from this “Down Payment” on Strong Global Warming Legislation The package–which passed the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the past week–will help reduce America’s oil dependency and take an important step toward reducing global warming… Read more >

Midwest Greenhouse Gas Accord

12/5/2007 // Josh Nelson

Nine Midwestern governors and the Premier of Manitoba yesterday signed an historic greenhouse gas accord. This has powerful implications not just for state and regional progress, but for global warming policy nationwide. In addition, it lays out a detailed road… Read more >