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What’s It Like to Be a Lawyer at an Environmental Nonprofit?

GreenTechMedia

Kit Kennedy, senior director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spends her time promoting renewable and sustainable solutions to problems that face the public. She aims to promote clean energy solutions including distributed energy resources and energy efficiency.

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Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs

AGreenLiving

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. The environment shapes our society. The NRDC-UCSF study is unprecedented.

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Over 650 scientists urge world leaders to stop burning forests for energy on eve of UN nature summit

Envirotec Magazine

Over 650 scientists have signed a letter urging world leaders to stop using forests for bioenergy, ahead of the 15th Meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) – a major UN summit on protecting nature. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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Virginia advocates seek path forward for electric school buses despite lack of state funds

Renewable Energy World

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. A child riding on a diesel school bus may be exposed to as much as four times the level of pollution from exhaust as someone riding in a car, according to a study released in 2001 by the Natural Resources Defense Council.