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Complete list of press releases

EPA Analysis Forecasts Robust Economic Growth With Climate Change Law
March 14, 2008
Statement on NAM-ACCF Analysis of Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act
March 13, 2008
Statement by Environmental Defense on House Climate Change White Paper
February 25, 2008
Environmental Defense Welcomes Apparent Benefits of Capture and Storage Power Plant
February 19, 2008
Environmental Defense Praises Luminant Action To Build Two Texas Demonstration Plants
February 18, 2008
Environmental Defense Works With Banks to Push Power Companies to Cut Carbon Emissions and Invest In Alternative Energy
February 4, 2008
Energy Policy Specialist Tells Senate Committee New Technology to Cut Global Warming Pollution Could Work If Properly Regulated
January 31, 2008
Environmentalists Challenge State's Weak Adherence to Clean Air Act's Permitting Program
January 17, 2008
EPA Rejection of California Clean Cars Standards Threatens Public Health
January 10, 2008
Environmentalists Sue to Challenge EPA Ruling on Clean Cars
January 2, 2008
Governor Kaine's New Climate Commission Shows Growing National Momentum for Fighting Climate Change
December 21, 2007
Cap and Trade Climate Bill Set for Introduction in House in Early 2008
December 20, 2007
EPA Denies States the Right to Fight Global Warming
December 19, 2007
Environmental Defense Applauds Passage of Energy Bill
December 18, 2007
Federal Court Rebukes Auto Industry Challenge to Clean Car Program as "the Very Definition of Folly"
December 12, 2007