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| The NRDC is one of the largest environmental action organizations in the US. NRDC lobbies Congress and political decision makers to promote laws that preserve the environment, ensure sustainability, and protect wildlife.
In addition, NRDC files lawsuits against corporations that violate environmental laws and sponsors scientific studies that advance its goals. Finally, NRDC educates the public, using its 1.3 million members to organize educational campaigns. NRDC recently launched the "Partnership for the Environment" campaign that seeks to raise $400 million for its environmental goals, expand its online community to 2 million people, and build partnerships with the private sector.
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Did you know...
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| …that recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy cost of processing new aluminum?
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| …that in United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth assessment report, average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years?
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| …that the incandescent light bulb has an energy efficiency of only 5%, and the rest of the energy is used to generate heat rather than light?
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| …that many countries which signed the Kyoto Protocol actually increased the greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to the treaty?
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In the news
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus urges the President to act on immigration reform. Read about the principles the CPC wants included in comprehensive immigration reform.
The conventional wisdom among the pundits and chattering class is that the political upheaval we're seeing is either about Democrats or it's about incumbents. But if you look at the patterns of who's doing well and who's not, a different theme emerges: politicians who put corporate interests above populist ones are in deep trouble.
Organized labor, MoveOn.org and progressive members of Congress are increasingly breaking from the orbit of the White House and the Democratic establishment, beginning to take on the administration, build an independent infrastructure and back progressive primary challengers.
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In this month...
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September 3, 1964 – The Wilderness Act is passed into law, establishing the legal definition of Wilderness as "an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
September 15, 1963 – Four young girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) attending Sunday school in Birmingham, Alabama, are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths.
September 20, 1957 – Nine black students are blocked from entering Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine."
September 24, 1965 – Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time. It requires government contractors to "take affirmative action" toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and employment.
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