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"LOOK AT CALIFORNIA. By setting steadily higher standards for the energy efficiency of buildings and appliances -- and creating incentives for utilities to work with consumers to use less power -- California has held its per-capita electricity use constant for 30 years, while the rest of the nation has seen per-capita electricity use increase by nearly 50 percent, according to [NRDC]."
-- From Thomas Friedman's column "Morning in the Garden," New York Times, January 17, 2007
"ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT by the advocacy group [NRDC], the U.S. airline industry discards enough aluminum cans each year to build 58 Boeing 747 airplanes.... 'Here is a clear opportunity for cost competitiveness and environmental objectives to marry,' [NRDC's Allen] Hershkowitz said."
-- From "Recycling at Airports Has Yet to Take Off," Washington Post, December 14, 2006
"'THEY MAY SEE SOME HANDWRITING ON THE WALL,' said David Doniger, climate center policy director for [NRDC]. '[Bush administration officials] don't want to look like deniers right now. They've got enough problems. "
-- "From Bush's Climate Remarks Weighed for Policy Shift," Washington Post, January 27, 2007
"THE EXEMPTION FROM THE MARINE MAMMAL LAW, [NRDC's Joel] Reynolds said, 'is a blatant admission by the U.S. Navy that its current operations violate protective standards for whales, dolphins and other marine life. It's not that the Navy cannot comply with the law. It's that the Navy chooses not to.' "
-- From "Navy Gets 2-Year Exemption to Sonar Limits," Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2007
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