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Environmental Groups Fight Attempt to Repeal Crucial Climate Provision from 2007 U.S. Energy Bill
WASHINGTON (May 8, 2008) – Today, the Natural Resources Defense Council and 26 other U.S. and Canadian environmental groups sent a letter to the Senate and House urging preservation of Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). Section 526 prohibits the Federal purchase of dirty fuels (such as liquid coal, tar sands and oil shale) whose lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions are higher than conventional fuels.
The letter urges Members to oppose amendments to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Bill that would repeal Section 526.
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New Department of Energy Study Shows Limit on Global Warming Pollution Compatible With Robust Economic Growth
WASHINGTON (April 30, 2008) – A new report released today by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Information Agency (EIA) shows that we can cut U.S. global warming pollution to the levels required by legislation due to be voted on by the Senate in early June while continuing robust economic growth and containing energy costs. This legislation would be a strong start on the emission reductions that experts say are needed to avert costly and dangerous environmental damages, according to policy experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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Statement by Dale Bryk, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on President Bush's Press Conference on the Economy
“Today, the president was trying to distract us from the results of his own failed energy policy. The best way to lower gas prices is to apply American ingenuity to making and marketing fuel-efficient and alternative-fuel vehicles. Instead, the president focused on opening pristine wilderness areas to drilling. Spoiling wilderness for future generations would do nothing but enrich oil companies and perpetuate this country’s addiction to oil. It would not lower gas prices.
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Judge Orders Bush Administration to Stop Delaying Polar Bear Protection
OAKLAND, Calif.(April 29, 2008) -- A federal judge has found the Bush administration guilty of violating the Endangered Species Act and ordered the administration to issue a final listing decision for the polar bear by May 15, 2008. The polar bear, suffering as its Arctic sea ice habitat melts far faster than forecast, is one of the world’s most imperiled animals due to global warming.
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Yellow-Billed Loon Finally On the Road to Protection
SAN FRANCISCO -- Conservation groups have reached an agreement that brings the extremely rare yellow-billed loon a step closer to much needed protection from threats such as oil development in Alaska and the loss of its tundra habitat in the face of global warming. The groups filed suit in December 2007 against the U.S. Department of the Interior, the agency charged with protecting endangered wildlife, after the agency had fallen more than two years behind the legal deadline for taking action to protect the species. As a result of the suit, Interior has agreed to evaluate the bird’s plight and decide by mid-February of 2009 whether to list the species under the Endangered Species Act.
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