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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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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: Sean Crowley, ( 202 ) 572-3331-w , scrowley@edf.org Michael Bean, (202) 572-3312-w, mbean@edf.org               (Washington, DC – August 12, 2008)  A proposal by the Bush Administration that would allow federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects would harm endangered animals [...]

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Workshop on market-based private forest conservation The American Forest Foundation is hosting a workshop on market-based approaches for conserving family forests September 10-11 in Ellicott City, Maryland. This first-of-its-kind national workshop aims to bring together individuals and organizations and start developing strategies that enable family forest owners to capitalize on the ecological and economic [...]

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