Conservation

Climate and Energy Bill: June Momentum in Congress

Action on the American Clean Energy & Security Act is heating up as Congress returned from recess and got busy with talks among the leadership.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has … Read more

Principals for Change Roll Into DC

Here’s a guest post from NWF communications intern Max Greenberg! Just a couple of weeks after Rolling Thunder roared through Washington, a very different kind of ride hit town. Not … Read more

Plant a Tree, Grow a Job

Got this email recently from Jeremy Symons, the National Wildlife Federation’s senior vice president for conservation and education: I was returning from a meeting in Congress a week ago and … Read more

NWF’s Larry Schweiger on the American Clean Energy & Security Act

Via the ClimateOne blog, here’s a clip of National Wildlife Federation President & CEO Larry Schweiger talking about how the Waxman-Markey bill affects international climate treaty negotiations coming up in … Read more

Urgent Request from Congress: Tell Us About Wildlife

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

Zionsville Community Habitat and Indiana Wildlife Federation

Over the weekend, I was proud to join the community of Zionsville, Indiana at the dedication of a sign honoring their Community Wildlife Habitat. I joined Elizabeth Mueller, the Zionsville … Read more

Dutch Lessons on Managing Rising Water Due to Warming

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson led a delegation of federal and Louisiana officials to the Netherlands, to learn how the Dutch manage their water. More … Read more

Global CEOs: Climate Action Key to Economic Growth

Hoping to create a global carbon market, the organizers of a world business summit on climate change said 2 million new jobs would be created in the U.S. alone if … Read more

Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Presses for China-US Climate Action

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a bipartisan Congressional delegation to China last week, urging that "we must work together" to address global warming. "We believe China and … Read more

Unprecedented Coalition Sets Stage for Climate Bill to Move to Full House

The race is on in Washington and at international talks continuing throughout the year to bring the era of fossil fuel dominance to a close. National Wildlife Federation called the … Read more