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Sacramento Bike Commute It may seem counter-intuitive, but the more bicyclists there are on the road, the lower the rate of accidents. If you double the number of cyclists, the accident rate per cyclist will drop by a third. “It’s a virtuous cycle,” says Dr Julie Hatfield , an injury expert from UNSW who [...]

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Media Contact : Laura Williamson, Environmental Defense Fund, 512.691.3447-w or 512.828.1690-c or lwilliamson@edf.org   (AUSTIN, TX – September 3, 2008) Colin Meehan has joined Environmental Defense Fund as Renewable Energy Specialist for the Texas Climate and Air program.   Meehan will help to develop projects and policies to promote [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact : Laura Williamson, Environmental Defense Fund, 512.691.3447-w or 512.828.1690-c or lwilliamson@edf.org   (AUSTIN, TX – September 3, 2008) Kate Robertson has joined Environmental Defense Fund as Energy Efficiency Specialist for the Texas Climate and Air program.   Robertson will help develop and implement strategies to promote energy efficiency in [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts:   Sean Crowley – (202) 572-3331 or scrowley@edf.org Vickie Patton – (303) 447-7215 or vpatton@edf.org Janea Scott – (213) 223-2186 or jscott@edf.org   (Washington, DC – September 4, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today took action to cut pollution from a major source of summertime smog and to protect human health [...]

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With an astonishing ten million pigs in North Carolina’s hog industry, animal waste stored in open lagoons is a major environmental and health threat. Now a program Environmental Defense Fund worked to enact last summer is poised to begin the installation of cleaner technologies, bringing relief to hog farmers, their long-suffering neighbors and the [...]

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