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Issues: Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Ask the Candidates, Get Candid Answers

August 13, 2008

Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
environmentalpolicy, environmentalpolitics

We expect much from our elected leaders yet rarely do we get the opportunity to engage them on the issues we care about. So many members of Congress, yet so little chance to actually ask them where they stand on...

Many Mountains. One Voice.

February 21, 2008

Posted by Rob Perks in Environmental Justice , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
appalachia, coalmining, miningdestruction, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, mtr

It's good to know that Kentuckians have laws to protect their communities from the abuses of our throwaway society. While spending time recently in the eastern part of the state, I was relieved when I read a front page story...

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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