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Just What the Doctor Ordered: Climate Change, Public Health, and Clean Energy

May 18, 2009

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

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arctic, darfur, globalwarming, globalwarmingandhealth, health, heatwaves, lancet, malnutrition

Six years ago, the only people I talked to about global warming were other environmentalists. Now it is the top of the agenda for everyone from corporate CEOs to national security hawks. Last week, another sector joined in the growing...continued→

In Memory of a Toxics Warrior

December 22, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
almeyerhoff, california, chemicals, health, toxins

It is with great sadness that I write about the passing of our dear friend and colleague Al Meyerhoff. A leader in NRDC's San Francisco office from 1981 to 1998, Al was a potent force for NRDC and the environment....continued→