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Historic step for ecosystem restoration and economic recovery.
We helped convince the Obama administration to enact standards substantially reducing mercury pollution, preventing 11,000 premature deaths each year.
We paved the way for the government and automakers to agree on bold rules that will cut oil and costs.
We were instrumental in both securing the new rule, which will save up to 34,000 lives/year, and defending it in court.
The thick, black smoke from dirty oil is on its way out. The air will be a lot cleaner — dirty heating oil causes more pollution than New York's traffic.
We train and match graduate students with host organizations to uncover energy savings. To date, they've identified projects that will cut 1 million tons of pollution.
We helped win a landmark ballot initiative, exposing funding from big oil companies and rallying voters for clean energy.
Legislation we pushed for puts protecting wildlife on a par with reliable water supplies for cities and farm communities.
We assembled key political and scientific support to protect this marine area larger than the state of California.
Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.
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