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  • EPA Follows the Science, Denies Climate Deniers' Petition

    WASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) -- EPA today denied petitions from a rogues gallery of climate deniers who had asked the agency to reconsider its scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and the environment.
  • Report: More than One Out of Three U.S. Counties Face Water Shortages Due to Climate Change

    WASHINGTON (July 20, 2010) -- More than 1,100 U.S. counties -- a full one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states -- now face higher risks of water shortages by mid-century as the result of global warming, and more than 400 of these counties will be at extremely high risk for water shortages, based on estimates from a new report by Tetra Tech for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
  • In Meeting President Obama Calls for Clean Energy Legislation With Firm Limit on Carbon Pollution

    WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) – Following a meeting between President Obama and a bi-partisan group of Senators to discuss climate and clean energy legislation, Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center Director at NRDC, made the following statement: “The President and a bi-partisan group of Senators met today for 90 minutes to discuss passing clean energy and climate legislation in the Senate this summer. The President made it clear that legislation should include a limit on carbon pollution. The President’s continued leadership on this issue is essential to making progress....