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Study Confirms that Green Spaces Are Good for People, Not Just Fish

November 12, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner in Health and the Environment

Tags:
beaches, cleanwater, greeninfrastructure, greenroofs, greenspace, LID, lowimpactdevelopment, runoff, smartgrowth, stormwater

Sometimes when people learn that my job is to help clean America's waterways, they assume I care about more about fish than people. The truth is that the best way to keep dirty stormwater and other urban pollution out of our rivers...continued

The Senate’s Climate Bill Must Support Water Adaptation

September 28, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner

Tags:
climatebill, climatechange, greeninfrastructure, water, waterprogram

On Wednesday, Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer plan to unveil the Senate's version of climate change legislation, a counterpart to the bill that passed in the House of Representatives this past June. A lot of the attention surrounding the...continued

With Beach Closings on the Rise, It's Time to Pioneer Clean Water Solutions

August 10, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner in Health and the Environment

Tags:
beachreport, beachwater, cleanwateract, deadzone, greeninfrastructure, greenroofs, lowimpactdevelopment, nutrients, sewage, simplesteps, stormwater, testingthewaters

I spent most of last week talking to reporters about NRDC's 19th annual beachwater quality report, Testing the Waters. I walked them through our findings: that that there were more than 20,000 times when beaches were deemed unhealthy for swimming--mostly...continued