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Happy 40th Anniversary Clean Water Act!
The Clean Water Act protects bodies of water across the country, like those in our National Parks. Yellowstone National Park photo by Flickr user Jeff Gunn. This Thursday, we celebrate the 40th...
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California Love: 40 Years of Clean Water Act Protections
This Thursday marks the 4oth Anniversary of the Clean Water Act, which begs the question: what has the Clean Water Act done for your favorite waters—the very waters you swim in, you fish on, and/or you...
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1,000 Days Late and Billions of Dollars Short
Tomorrow marks one thousand days since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, spewing millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days. The oil spill devastated the Gulf’s...
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Speak Up for Gulf Dolphins—Make Sure BP’s Oil Spill Fines Are Used for...
Scientists are still investigating an unprecedented rise in dolphin mortality in the northern gulf. Photo by The Pug Father/Flickr.Do you remember the television show Flipper? You know, that loveable,...
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Gulf Residents Ask DOJ to Hold BP Fully Accountable
Today marked the start of the civil trial to hold BP accountable for the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. As dawn broke in New Orleans, 50 Gulf coast residents and representatives from National...
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Time to Protect Our Streams and Wetlands
A small cascade along the Pemigewasset River in Franconia Notch State Park. Photo by Avelino Maestas.A new water study released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that 55 percent of our...
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Congress and Water Projects in America: The Latest on the WRDA
Two weeks ago the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reported the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA), which is the main vehicle for authorizing billions of dollars worth of water...
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Will Senate Water Down Environmental Protections While the Midwest Floods?
After the Midwest experienced drought during the past several months and now the April showers are bringing May floods. Last week the Mississippi River crested five and a half feet above the flood...
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Speak Up! BP Oil Spill Fines Must be Used to Restore the Gulf
Three years after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and sent more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the region’s wildlife and wetlands are still suffering. Last...
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The Public Has Spoken: Gulf Ecosystem Restoration Is National Economic...
July 8th marked the end of a public comment period for the Gulf Ecosystem Restoration Council’s Draft Plan. National Wildlife Federation and Environmental Defense Fund’s members submitted an astounding...
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We OTTER Protect Clean Water
Looking beyond the hackneyed pun, the statement is as true as it ever was: we need to protect our waters in the United States. This includes all waters, particularly critical headwater streams, rivers,...
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Post Thanksgiving: I’m Still Thankful, Especially for Florida
The view along the coastal highway of Florida. NWF photo by Robyn Fischer. It has become a Fischer family tradition to spend Thanksgiving holiday in Daytona, Florida—I’m not too sure what palm trees...
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Congress Holds the Fate of Your Rivers, Coasts and Wetlands in Their Hands!
Don’t allow scenic rivers like these be harmed by a rushed environmental review process (photo courtesy of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) At this very moment members of Congress are in the process...
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