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Ramifications of EPA’s Proposed New Carbon Pollution Standards for Minority Communities 

,  |  May 12, 2023

EPA released its proposed new carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants on May 11, 2023. It is a cause for celebration not only for minority communities all over … Read more

Fighting Money with Money: Campuses Divest from Fossil Fuels

, ,  |  Oct 10, 2012

Hey, did you know? There’s an election coming up! Right, right, you knew. Kind of hard to miss that one. But here are a few more things you maybe didn’t … Read more

NWF Campus Ecology Releases New Student Guide on Dirty Energy Politics

 |  Sep 20, 2012

National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program is pleased to announce the release of our new resource, “A Student’s Guide to How Corporate Oil, Gas and Coal Money Influences U.S. Energy … Read more

Tired of Polluter TV Spots? There’s an App for That

 |  Sep 20, 2012

If you live in a political swing state, you’ve probably noticed the barrage of political ads being sponsored by oil, gas, and coal companies. Wealthy polluters are pouring unprecedented millions … Read more

Fund the Solution, Not the Problem

 |  May 11, 2012

This week a couple of Members of Congress have thrown their ideas on budget cutting into the mix by proposing legislation to end all subsidies to fossil fuel industries.  Led … Read more

Guest Post: Pennsylvanians Don’t Have a Friend in Senator Toomey

 |  Mar 7, 2012

Ed Perry is an aquatic biologist who retired in 2002 after a 30-year career with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he supervised the section responsible for protecting streams … Read more

Invisible Dangers, Visible Opportunity

,  |  Apr 11, 2011

Last month the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new proposed limits on toxic pollutants including mercury, arsenic, dioxin, acid rain and several others that make their way from our nation’s coal-burning … Read more

What if 1/3 of Americans said there was no evidence Pearl Harbor was attacked?

 |  Nov 2, 2010

Imagine if a survey were taken in late December 1941 and it revealed that one-third of Americans believed there was no solid evidence of an attack on Pearl Harbor and … Read more

Global Warming Emissions to Rise this Year

 |  Jul 7, 2010

You might think that with all of the effort to jump start the clean energy economy and in the midst of an economic slow down that the U.S. would be … Read more

To President Obama – Lead Us to a Clean Energy Future

 |  Dec 16, 2009

By Larry J. Schweiger Download Pres Obama Letter Dec 16 final National Wildlife Federation and other environmental, business, and faith organizations representing millions are asking President Obama to lead the … Read more