NRDC In the News: Winter 2007

"CALIFORNIA'S POLITICAL LEADERS announced an agreement...that imposes the most sweeping controls on carbon dioxide emissions in the nation....Ralph Cavanagh [of NRDC] said in a telephone interview: 'This is not an act of altruism. This is an act of enlightened self-interest. By accelerating the effort to reduce global warming pollution, California will benefit.' "
-- From "Leaders Accept California Bill to Cut Emissions," New York Times, August 31, 2006

"IN WHAT WILL BE ONE OF THE West's largest river-restoration efforts, water will be returned to a now dry 60-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River.... 'This is a story about breathing new life back into a critical waterway,' said Hal Candee, a senior attorney with [NRDC], which sued the Bureau of Reclamation in 1988."
-- From "Details Released on Plan to Restore Water to San Joaquin River," Associated Press, September 13, 2006

" 'IT'S ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE,' said Laurie David, the founder of the Stop Global Warming website and a board member of [NRDC]. 'Change one or two things, you end up changing four or five things. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Before you know it, you start influencing people around you.' "
-- From "The Energy Diet," New York Times, October 5, 2006

"AMERICA IS FACING A CRISIS when it comes to electricity.... The good news is, 'We haven't found a major use of electricity for which there aren't great opportunities for savings,' says David B. Goldstein, director of energy programs at [NRDC] and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award for his work on appliance-efficiency stan-dards."
-- From "Less Power to the People," Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2006