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"'[Car] companies and the Obama administration know that the only way they can survive is if they are making more cleaner, high-mileage cars,' said David Doniger, climate policy director at NRDC."
--From "Safety Could Suffer if We Boost Mileage by Making Cars Smaller," USA Today, May 19, 2009
"'There is a lot of investment for clean energy and technology, but there is nothing in there for transportation infrastructure,' [said Deron Lovaas, NRDC's transportation policy director]. 'The two bills, climate and transportation, will have to complement each other. That is the dance that Energy and Commerce... will need to perform.'"
--From "With Highway Bill on the Distant Horizon, Reformers Eye Climate Measure to Make a Splash," nytimes.com, Greenwire, June 11, 2009
"'In the early years, protecting the environment was not a popular notion,' said Robert Redford. 'I used to help everyone that I could [who was fighting for the earth]...but I soon realized that was taking too much energy. So I decided to focus on a group that would have the most impact. I thought of NRDC because they could sue to protect it.'"
--From "Robert Redford on Paul Newman, Sundance and the Increasingly Crucial Fight to Save the Earth," thedailygreen.com, July 6, 2009
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