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People are taking stock,

keeping what matters
and junking the rest.

That’s a good thing.

Building a new future
– for ourselves,
for our kids,
for the long run
– doesn’t need to be complicated
or cost money we don’t have.

It’s all about taking care of the basics. Like –

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food water home
water
There’s only so much fresh water on this blue planet.
We helped transform the
national debate about corn-
based ethanol with our August
2008 report, The Unintended
Environmental Impacts of the
Renewable Fuels Standard:
Time to Change Direction in
Biofuel Policy, that demonstrated
that achieving the 2007 energy
bill’s biofuels mandate would
require billions of gallons of
scarce water and expand the Gulf
of Mexico’s “Dead Zone.”
Our October 2008 report
-- Bottled Water Quality
Investigation: 10 Major Brands,
38 Pollutants -- was featured in
more than two dozen newspapers,
broadcasts reaching an audience
of 12 million and a New York Times
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editorial that echoed our message,
demanding bottled water “as
good or even better than the less-
expensive stuff that comes out of
a tap.”
We neared the tipping point
with our 7-year campaign for a
nationwide cleanup of perchlorate,
a rocket fuel component
and thyroid toxin. The Bush
administration’s eleventh-hour
refusal to regulate perchlorate
as a water pollutant pleased the
defense, aerospace and chemical
industries, which have been
lobbying aggressively to avoid an
expensive cleanup of perchlorate
spills at Cold War-era rocket
launch and missile test sites and
plant that produced rocket fuel.
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environmentalists, consumers,
health professionals and scientists After we documented that
– including two EPA science dozens of mining claims had
advisory panels, who issued rare been staked within five miles
public letters of protest. . of the Grand Canyon, the House
Natural Resources Committee
Our May 2008 analysis, Without invoked a rarely-used emergency
a Paddle: U.S. Law Powerless authority to ban new mining
to Protect Colorado River From claims on more than 1 million
Mining, unearthed a surge in acres around the national treasure.
mining claims for uranium, gold
and other metals along the banks
of the Colorado River. The report
generated an outpouring of news
and commentary by people
alarmed at specter of toxic runoff
and scarred landscapes along
the great American river, which
provides drinking water for 25
million Americans and irrigates
millions of Western farmland.