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Senators, Representatives, Governors Support Carbon Pollution Standards

Conservation, Wildlife Facts | Jun 4, 2014

On Monday, the EPA released first-ever standards limiting carbon pollution from power plants. While our country limits the amount of mercury, arsenic, and soot our power plants can dump into … Read more

Big Coal on Capitol Hill: Liveblogging Today’s House Hearing

Conservation | Apr 14, 2010

The National Wildlife Federation is liveblogging today’s House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming hearing, The Role of Coal in a New Energy Age. Read the liveblog here! Read more

The Road to Copenhagen: Transforming the World’s Energy Economy With 21st Century Solutions

Conservation | Nov 19, 2009

The piece below is my latest editorial from National Wildlife magazine Carbon dioxide pollution knows no political boundaries. Decarbonizing every economy around the world must be our common goal. In … Read more

Dirty Politics for Dirty Fuels

Conservation | Aug 8, 2009

(as published in National Wildlife Federation’s National Wildlife, Aug/Sept. 2009) Many of you wrote letters and placed phone calls to your members of Congress in support of the American Clean … Read more

Historic Vote for Energy Independence and Wildlife

Conservation | Jun 26, 2009

I’m heartened by this evening’s vote by the House of Representatives to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The bill passed with a 219 to 212 bipartisan vote. … Read more

Historic Vote Today – Let Your Voice Be Heard

Conservation | Jun 26, 2009

Debate has begun in the House of Representatives on the historic American Clean Energy and Security Act. This bill is the most comprehensive climate and clean energy bill to ever … Read more

Gearing Up For Final Clean Energy Bill Push

Conservation | Jun 19, 2009

Will the U.S. House take a final vote on the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act next week? That’s what President Obama is asking for: The Obama administration … Read more

Urgent Request from Congress: Tell Us About Wildlife

Conservation | Jun 10, 2009

I just got an email from Robyn, in the Western Regional Center, with an urgent call to action she’d seen in the Mercury News. Oddly enough the author was not … Read more

Waxman Ready to Show Cards on ACES?

Conservation | May 12, 2009

The National Wildlife Federation has been lobbying hard to help build support for strong provisions in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Now Grist reports Democrats have … Read more

Obama to Huddle with House Dems on Clean Energy Bill

Conservation | May 5, 2009

President Obama is calling all 36 Democrats from the House Energy & Commerce Committee to a meeting at the White House today: A White House aide said Obama plans to … Read more

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