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Record-breaking support for clean air

Together with our allies, we’ve delivered more than 800,000 comments to the EPA in support of strong clean air standards — no other single EPA rule has ever received so much support. Environment Massachusetts Advocate Ben Wright (right), delivered more than 600,000 of those comments to the EPA's regional office in Boston.

News Release | Environment America

Environment America: Congratulations to Sally Jewell, New Head of the Department of Interior

Washington, D.C. – Moments ago the Senate voted to confirm Sally Jewell, President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of the Interior. Mary Rafferty, conservation program coordinator for Environment America, released the following statement:

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News Release | Environment America

President Obama’s Budget Should Protect Our Environment, Public Health

Washington, D.C. – Anna Aurilio, Director of Environment America’s Washington, DC Office issued the following statement in anticipation of President Obama’s FY 14 budget proposal scheduled for release later today:

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News Release | Environment America Research & Policy Center

Four out of Five Americans Live in Areas Hit by Recent Weather Disasters

After yet another year in which many parts of the country were hit by scorching heat, devastating wildfires, crippling drought, record floods and severe storms like Hurricane Sandy, a new Environment America Research & Policy Center report finds that weather-related disasters are affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, and documents how global warming could lead to certain extreme weather events becoming even more common or more severe in the future.

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Report | Environment America Research & Policy Center

In the Path of the Storm

After yet another year in which many parts of the country were hit by scorching heat, devastating wildfires, crippling drought, record floods and severe storms like Hurricane Sandy, a new Environment America Research & Policy Center report finds that weather-related disasters are affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, and documents how global warming could lead to certain extreme weather events becoming even more common or more severe in the future.

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News Release | Environment America

Exxon’s Tar Sands Oil Spill Portends Dirty and Dangerous Future in Keystone XL Pipeline

Boston, MA.  -- Environment America’s Get Off Oil Program Director, Dan Gatti, issued this statement following the rupture of Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline on Friday afternoon, which spilled an estimated 2000 barrels of oil and caused the evacuation of 22 homes in the small town of Mayflower, Arkansas:

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