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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Sharyn Stein, 202-572-3396, sstein@edf.org   (Washington, DC) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a scientifically sound and financially wise decision today to stop a controversial flood control project in Mississippi. That’s according to one of the nation’s leading environmental advocacy groups.   Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is praising [...]

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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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“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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