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Check out just a small fraction of the Center s recent victories.
NATIONAL WINS
With allies, we defeated an illegal attempt to gut the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that would have let polluters off the hook for killing birds.
After a 13-year battle, we stopped the rubber-stamping of permits for coal mining in the habitat of endangered species nationwide.
The Center and allies scored a legal victory that ended the rapid-fire approvals of stream-crossing permits (NWP 12) for pipelines that halted Keystone XL and temporarily halted other new pipeline crossings nationwide. Public pressure and multiple lawsuits led to the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast pipeline, denial of a key permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate extension, and the shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline until further review.
By Rick Windham
Have you noticed that there are a few more bald eagles in the area? It is one of the cycles of nature we see here each winter. Eagles follow waterfowl on their annual migrations. When there are a lot of ducks and geese around, you will find eagles. The majority of these eagles are migrants, just like the ducks and geese. Eagles follow the waterfowl because they are a main food source. Winter is the best time to see eagles in the Cornhusker State.
In Nebraska, we see both bald eagles and golden eagles. A mature bald eagle is easy to identify with its white head and tail. Younger birds are more brown and mottled in appearance. They are often mistaken for golden eagles. One way to tell a golden eagle from an immature bald eagle is leg plumage.
SEATTLE â From reintroduction of the grizzly bear to its wild North Cascades redoubt to attacking climate change, a wide range of environmental policies could see a new direction in the Pacific Northwest under a Biden administration.
For starters, government and nonprofit policy leaders say they are looking forward to a return to science as a basis for environmental policymaking. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than on climate warming.
Gov. Jay Inslee has championed Washington climate and energy policies sharply at odds with a president who dismissed the threats posed by greenhouse gas emissions in a warming world.
Inslee now has a powerful ally in President-elect Joe Biden. Biden s campaign platform calls for dramatically stepping up a U.S. transition away from fossil fuels to set the nation on a path to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury, which means that whatever carbon pollution is emitted into the atmosphere is offset by other measures. And, sinc
Can t decide on a real vs. fake Christmas tree? Consider a living tree
In this week s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the benefits of a live Christmas tree and how the U.S. Clean Air Act has helped birds across the continent.
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