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• Clean Energy Is Good for America, Whether You Believe in Climate Change or Not (November 18, 2009)
• Obama's China Trip: A Breakthrough on Clean Energy and Climate (November 18, 2009)
• Join Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Me at a New York City Town Hall (November 16, 2009)
• This Is Not a Political Screed, It Is Common Sense for Our Energy Future (November 13, 2009)
• Obama's Trip to China: a New Interest in Clean Tech and a New Spirit of Cooperation (November 12, 2009)
• Talking with Ban Ki-Moon about His Hopes for Copenhagen (November 11, 2009)
• LIVE: Ask NRDC President Frances Beinecke Tuesday, 11/10 at 9:45 a.m. EST (November 9, 2009)
• If the Green Economy Is Coming, America Must Start Leading Now (November 9, 2009)
• Starting a Clean Energy Revolution with Common Sense (November 6, 2009)
• More than 100 Elite Economists Agree: Global Warming is a Risk to the Economy (November 5, 2009)
• Gore's New Book and Why the Choice of Clean Energy Is Ours to Make (November 4, 2009)
• Latest Draft of Senate Climate Bill: What's Good and What Needs Work (October 27, 2009)
• Obama at MIT: The Nation that Leads in Clean Energy Will Lead the Global Economy (October 23, 2009)
• Salazar Cleans Up Bush-Era Cronyism in Dirty Oil-Shale Program (October 22, 2009)
• Young Veterans Tell Congress: Cleaner Energy Is Safer for America (October 16, 2009)
• Young Climate Warriors: Use Your Voice as well as Your Passion (October 15, 2009)
• Cautiously Optimistic that the Climate Bill Is Gaining Ground (October 14, 2009)
• Nobel Prize Recognizes Link between Peace and Climate Action (October 9, 2009)
• Tell Your Senators to Save Our National Parks from Global Warming (October 7, 2009)
• The Senate's Clean Energy and Climate Bill: The Right Step at the Right Time (September 30, 2009)
• Lawmakers Watch NRDC's film ACID TEST on Capitol Hill (September 30, 2009)
• Sigourney Weaver & I take ACID TEST, our new documentary, to Capitol Hill (September 28, 2009)
• The G20, Climate Talks, and Trade Measures: Keeping Jobs in America (September 25, 2009)
• G20 Summit Highlights Pennsylvania's Green Jobs Potential (September 24, 2009)
• Green Building: A Critical Climate Solution Spreads across China (September 23, 2009)
• Bringing the Arctic and the Rainforest to New York's Climate Week (September 22, 2009)
• "Climate Week" and My Talks with China's Top Negotiator (September 21, 2009)
• China's Environmental Law Moves Forward (September 16, 2009)
• Obama Should Tell Canada's Prime Minister: No Thanks on Tar Sands Expansion (September 15, 2009)
• Let Your Lawmakers Know that the Clock Is Ticking on the Climate Bill (September 10, 2009)
• Van Jones' Vision of Green Jobs Will Endure (September 9, 2009)
• Let Your Lawmakers Know that the Clock Is Ticking on the Climate Bill (September 9, 2009)
• Talking Green Jobs with Steelworkers in Gary, Indiana (September 3, 2009)
• Workers Rally for Green Jobs, Not Astroturf (September 1, 2009)
• My Summer Reading: Public Lands and the Next Generation of Roosevelts (August 28, 2009)
• The New Tar Sands Oil Pipeline: A Junkie's Last Fix (August 25, 2009)
• Made in America Job Tour: First Stop Cleveland (August 20, 2009)
• Five Reasons Why AB 32 Will Boost California's Economy (August 17, 2009)
• Obama’s View from Yellowstone: Pines Killed by Climate-Fueled Beetles (August 14, 2009)
• Town Hall Talks about Climate Should Be About Solutions, Not Intimidation (August 13, 2009)
• ACID TEST: Protecting Our Oceans' Economic Vitality from Global Warming (August 12, 2009)
• U.S. Military Says We Need Action on Climate Now or We Will "Pay Later" (August 10, 2009)
• The Senate Climate Bill Will Bring Jobs to Your State (August 5, 2009)
• Visiting a Boreal Village: Life Downstream from Tar Sands Oil (July 31, 2009)
• America's Other Foreign Oil: Seeing Canada's Tar Sands Up Close (July 30, 2009)
• Arctic People Talk about Life on the Frontlines of Climate Change (July 29, 2009)
• Notes from the North: Climate Change Is Accelerating (July 22, 2009)
• Why Stand in the Way of Green Jobs and Economic Opportunity? (July 20, 2009)
• Why We Can't Wait for a Perfect Climate Bill (July 14, 2009)
• The Climate Bill and Your Bills: Getting Clean Energy at Low Cost (July 9, 2009)
• Let's Not Go Backwards on Biofuels: Fixing the Climate Bill's Biofuels Provisions (July 7, 2009)
• The Climate Vote: What a Difference a Year Makes (June 30, 2009)
• Video of Frances Beinecke on Clean Energy and Climate Vote (June 26, 2009)
• The House Climate Vote Defies Expectation (June 26, 2009)
• Time to Take a Decisive Step: Climate Vote Scheduled for Friday (June 24, 2009)
• Reports Show Global Warming Is Already Hurting America; Fighting It Will Heal the Economy (June 18, 2009)
• New Film Captures Link between Imperiled Oceans and Climate Change (June 16, 2009)
• Greening Ohio: Bringing Clean Energy Jobs to the Midwest (June 10, 2009)
• Historic Vote Moves America Closer to Clean Energy and Climate Solutions (May 22, 2009)
• Why We Need a Vote on Climate Legislation This Summer (May 21, 2009)
• Everybody Wins with Obama’s Clean Cars Plan, Including a California Teacher (May 19, 2009)
• Just What the Doctor Ordered: Climate Change, Public Health, and Clean Energy (May 18, 2009)
• House Democrats Close to a Deal on Clean Energy Bill (May 13, 2009)
• Tales from the Arctic and Obama’s Polar Bear Decision (May 12, 2009)
• Growing Green: Honoring Leaders Who Are Changing the Way We Farm and Eat (May 8, 2009)
• The White House Climate Meeting: Obama Reassures Swing Voters (May 7, 2009)
• Breast Cancer Risk and the Air We Breathe (May 5, 2009)
• An Important Book That's Not Anti-Car, but Anti-Inefficiency (May 1, 2009)
• First 100 Days a Good Dress Rehearsal: Now We Need the Main Act (April 29, 2009)
• Why Obama Is Right: We Need Legislation AND Markets to Unleash Clean Energy (April 24, 2009)
• Washington Picks Up the Pace on Climate Action (April 22, 2009)
• The Empire State Building: How Gray Towers Become Green (April 7, 2009)
• Countdown to Copenhagen: Why the U.S. Must Act at Home (April 1, 2009)
• Celebrating Green Leaders with Some SNL Humor (March 31, 2009)
• Waxman and Markey Jumpstart House Clean Energy Discussion (March 31, 2009)
• Galbraith Calls Clean Energy the Next Engine for Economic Growth (March 30, 2009)
• Take Action During a Bad Week for Polar Bears (March 27, 2009)
• Nickelodeon Honors DiCaprio for Inspiring Young Activists (March 26, 2009)
• Phasing out Phthalates & Clearing the Air (March 12, 2009)
• Environmental Champion Robert Redford Wins New Award (March 10, 2009)
• A Factory Where Clean Vehicles, Public Transit, and Economic Growth Converge (March 4, 2009)
• Washington Feels Like a New City (March 3, 2009)
• What a Difference Six Weeks Makes: A Roundup of Obama's Green Progress (March 2, 2009)
• America Leads on Major Human Health Victory: Curbing Mercury Pollution (February 26, 2009)
• Power Shift 09: Young People Lead on Climate Action (February 25, 2009)
• Why We Need a Climate Bill Now, Not Another Energy Bill (February 24, 2009)
• Baja, California, Gray Whales, and 11 Million BioGems Messages (February 23, 2009)
• What Successful Environmental Activism Looks Like: Wild Baby Whales (February 19, 2009)
• President Obama: Don’t Give Canadian Tar Sands a Free Climate Pass (February 18, 2009)
• The Senate Stimulus Package: Green Jobs Are Good Jobs (February 10, 2009)
• Support for Climate Action in Davos, But Hard Work Awaits in Congress (January 31, 2009)
• President Obama: Continue to Lead on Restricting Mercury (January 30, 2009)
• Davos and Global Warming (January 29, 2009)
• Obama’s Clean Car Announcement: The End of the Little Ice Age in Washington (January 26, 2009)
• Cape Wind Can Start Leading the Way for Offshore Wind Power (January 23, 2009)
• Now Let’s Get to Work, Starting with the House Stimulus Package (January 22, 2009)
• Environmentalists and Business Leaders Agree: We Need Climate Action Now (January 15, 2009)
• America Can Have Both Utah Wilderness and Affordable Heating Bills (January 12, 2009)
• Household Trash Is Managed Better than the TVA’s Coal Ash (January 8, 2009)
• Two Critical Priorities Await Vilsack at Department of Agriculture (December 24, 2008)
• In Memory of a Toxics Warrior (December 22, 2008)
• Progress in Poznan: Did the Media Miss It? (December 18, 2008)
• Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake (December 17, 2008)
• What's Worse than Chemo? A Common Toxin that Renders It Less Effective (December 16, 2008)
• The Environmental Appointments: Obama Means What He Says (December 11, 2008)
• A High-Tech Gadget that Saves Money and Creates Jobs (December 10, 2008)
• Richardson Appointment: Good News for Oceans (December 3, 2008)
• Google CEO on Energy Efficiency: Doing the Right Thing Is Also the Right Thing for Business" (December 3, 2008)
• Commies & Atheists: Why the Coal Industry Really Is a Relic of the Past (December 2, 2008)
• Environmental Community Offers Obama a Green Economic Recovery Plan (November 25, 2008)
• Why Bush's Last-Minute Land Giveaway in Utah Matters (November 21, 2008)
• Obama, Global Warming, and the Fast-Track to Economic Stability (November 20, 2008)
• A Time for Boldness: How We Can Repower America with Clean Energy (November 6, 2008)
• The Obama Victory: America Enters the 21st Century (November 4, 2008)
• Breast Cancer Awareness: From Pink Ribbons to a Right to Know Law (October 28, 2008)
• Clean Energy Sector: It's Time to Make Your Voices Heard (October 24, 2008)
• Deutsche Bank Calls for a Green Economic Recovery Plan (October 23, 2008)
• Missed Opportunities: What Congress Did and Didn't Do for America's Energy Future (October 9, 2008)
• Not a Moment Too Soon: Van Jones' New Book (October 8, 2008)
• The WCC: Why Barcelona Will Be More Inspiring than Washington (October 3, 2008)
• Good News for My First Environmental Love (October 2, 2008)
• Not All Lobbyists Are Created Equal: The Current Energy Bills (September 23, 2008)
• The Passing of an Environmental Giant (September 22, 2008)
• The "Drill More, Innovate Less" Crowd Gets in the Way of Clean Solutions (September 16, 2008)
• You Get What You Pay For: The Decline of US Energy Innovation (September 11, 2008)
• "All of the Above" Is Really the Worst of the Old Energy Ideas (September 9, 2008)
• The Clock Hasn't Run Out on Backroom Bush Deals (September 5, 2008)
• Honeybees, NRDC's Lawsuit, and EPA's Discontent (September 4, 2008)
• Good News on California's Smart Growth Bill (August 26, 2008)
• California Shows How Smart Suburbs Can Be Clean Energy Solutions (August 25, 2008)
• Is There a "Hints from Heloise" for Energy Saving Tips? (August 22, 2008)
• What I Will Be Looking for at the Political Conventions (August 21, 2008)
• Where Is America in the Global Renewables Market? MIA (August 15, 2008)
• Fact or Fiction in the Energy Debate (August 14, 2008)
• Distraction, Misleading Energy Claims, and the Washington Post (August 13, 2008)
• Why I Am a Fan of Tire Gauges: The Overlooked Potential of Efficiency (August 8, 2008)
• It's About the Economy, Not Drilling (August 7, 2008)
• Congress Has Been Having the Wrong Energy Conversation (August 5, 2008)
• Congress Is Letting Our Best Green Energy Incentive Die (August 1, 2008)
• The Arctic Ocean: A Gold Rush with No Sheriff in Town (July 28, 2008)
• Seeing the Globe Warm: My Trip to the Arctic (July 25, 2008)
• Finally, Two Leaders Offer Bold Visions for Ending Energy Crisis (July 24, 2008)
• Grizzlies Catch a Break in the New West (July 10, 2008)
• Some Gas Price Pain Relievers for Drivers and One for the Presidential Candidates (July 3, 2008)
• Why World Energy Ministers Went to Jidda, Not Pensacola (June 25, 2008)
• Why Nuclear Power Is Not a Global Warming Solution (June 19, 2008)
• How Is the Cheney Energy Plan Working for You? (June 17, 2008)
• 6 Things We Can Do in the Face of Soaring Gas Prices (June 12, 2008)
• On US Climate Paralysis, Bangladesh, and Terrorism (June 10, 2008)
• Obstructionist Tactics Block the Climate Security Act but Momentum Grows for Global Warming Solutions (June 6, 2008)
• Putting a Price on Carbon: The Cheapest Way to Make Coal Cleaner (June 5, 2008)
• The Climate Security Act: Getting Closer to the Finish Line (June 4, 2008)
• Campaign Talk Is Cheap, Real Climate Leadership Is Priceless (May 30, 2008)
• When Politicans Don't Speak the Language of Science (May 29, 2008)
• It's Not Just about Hybrids: Three Tips for the Car Industry (May 23, 2008)
• Confront Global Warming in the Senate Before Getting to the White House (May 22, 2008)
• Five Reasons We Need a Senate Climate Vote Now (May 20, 2008)
• Efficiency: The Global Warming Solution Hiding in Plain Sight (May 16, 2008)
• Good News and Bad News About the Polar Bear Decision (May 15, 2008)
• Ecological Accounting: A New Measure of Economic Health (May 13, 2008)
• DOE Says We Can Have Carbon Caps and Economic Growth (May 2, 2008)
• Bush's Rose Garden Energy Plan: Deja Vu All Over Again (April 30, 2008)
• The Most Important Fight of My Career: the Lieberman-Warner Bill (April 29, 2008)
• Why Endocrine Disruptors Should Be a Household Word (April 25, 2008)
• A Garden Grows in The Bronx: How My Family Is Trying to Live Green (April 22, 2008)
• Calling a Toxin a Toxin: BPA Gets the Name It Deserves (April 17, 2008)
• Bush's Global Warming Plan Weaker than Even He Promised (April 16, 2008)
• Finding Real Optimism for Solving Global Warming (April 4, 2008)
• Unlocking the Global Warming Gridlock: Congestion Pricing Speeds Ahead in NYC (April 2, 2008)
• Breast Cancer and One of the Most Pervasive Chemicals of Modern Life (March 25, 2008)
• The New Green Stakeholder: Activist or Investment Bank? (March 20, 2008)
• I Wish They All Could Be California Innovators (March 18, 2008)
• With Biofuels, Better Is Better (March 14, 2008)
• Green Energy: When Enviros and CEOs Agree on Regulations (March 13, 2008)
• A Clean Energy Employer Rises in the Desert (March 6, 2008)
• The Invisible Hand Can Have a Green Thumb (March 4, 2008)
• Jobs for All in the Green Energy Economy (February 29, 2008)
• Confessions of an Environmentalist (February 20, 2008)
• Read the Label Before You Run the Bath (February 15, 2008)
• Keeping Green Alive in 08 (February 13, 2008)
• The Twilight of Dirty Coal (February 11, 2008)
• What Do We Want to Stimulate? (February 5, 2008)
• How to Get Safer Sushi (February 1, 2008)
• Eating Well for Yourself and for the Next Generation (January 30, 2008)
• Global Warming, the Economy, and the Get Out of Jail Free Card (January 24, 2008)
• Neurotic Mothers or Inattentive Government? (January 22, 2008)
• Don't Just Treat Cancer; Fight It Before It Comes (January 15, 2008)
• Will US Negotiators in Bali Listen to Global Civil Society? (December 13, 2007)
• Remembering the Boreal in the Midst of Bali (December 8, 2007)
• Protecting the Earth and Promoting the Economy (December 6, 2007)
• Why We Can't Wait for a New President to Solve Global Warming (December 4, 2007)
• Where Is Global Warming on the Campaign Trail? (December 2, 2007)
• The Bipartisan Air You Breathe (November 15, 2007)

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