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“Every year we go out and listen for the birds: nothing. This year, suddenly birdsong was everywhere.” That’s how Environmental Defense Fund ecologist David Wolfe described his thrilling encounter with endangered black-capped vireos on Kerry Russell’s ranch in central Texas this spring. Once fearing restrictions, ranchers now protect habitat Since 2001, Russell has worked [...]

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FO R IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact : Elena Craft, Environmental Defense Fund, 713.942.5821-w or 512.632.4946-c Media Contact : Chris Smith, Environmental Defense Fund, 512.691.3451-w or 512.659.9264-c or csmith@edf.org   (Houston – August 26, 2008) The Port of Houston Authority voted today to award a contract to Starcrest Consulting Group, LLC, to aid the Port in [...]

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Photos and video available – See End of Release   Contact : Katharine Burnham , 202/572-3335, kburnham@edf.org   ( Washington D.C. – August 25, 2008) President Bush today took a critical step towards establishing an unprecedented ocean conservation legacy.  In a memo sent to cabinet secretaries, the president proposed designating [...]

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Clean investment budgets (CIBs) represent a simple idea with powerful implications. CIBs provide a measurable, reportable, and verifiable mechanism that rewards any developing country that takes a firm emissions cap early. The term ‘clean investment budget’ means a multiyear absolute emissions cap initially set at a level higher than a country’s current emissions. The [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Sharyn Stein, Environmental Defense Fund, 202 -572-3396 , sstein@edf.org Maura Wood, National Wildlife Federation, 225-205-2804, woodm@nwf.org Bruce Reid, National Audubon Society, 601-661-6189, breid@audubon.org   (Baton Rouge, LA – August 21, 2008) – A new poll released a week before the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (August 29, 2005) shows [...]

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