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Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Activities Changing Cities Climate Damage Earth Farms Forests Global Global Warming Grow Human Impacts More Mountains Now Our Pollution Reducing See Severe Start Those Unless Warming Will

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The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Accelerate Dangerous Destructive Devastating Events Extreme Fail Global Global Warming Level Levels Pollution Reduce Rise Science Sea Tells Temperatures Us Warming Weather Will

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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Development Foul Gas Life Marine Miles Oil Plastic Pollution Threaten Toxic Trash Waters

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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Alike Change Clean Climate Climate Change Combat End Energy Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Help Humans Other Our Poses Reliance Renewable Renewable Energy Severe Threat Wildlife Will Wind

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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Animals Character Clear Crystal Encountered Good Industrialized Landscape Lost Mountain Never Once Recreate Streams Toxic Waste Wild You

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Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Abundant Air Breathe Change Clean Clean Energy Climate Climate Change Crisis Energy Environmental Generate Greatest Jobs Make Nation Our Our Time Resources Safer Tackle Tapping Them Time Will

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The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Acres Attract City Dramatic Edge Endangered Endangered Species Feet Forests Gabriel Like Lions Mature More Mountain Mountains Other Over Peaks Places Reach Rise Safeguarding San Sheep Species Streams Than Threatened

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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Acid Air Carbon Cleaning Countless Did Gas History Innovation Other Our Pollution Proud Rain Technological Through Too Up

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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: About Air American Carbon Children Coal Dust Future Like Look Neighborhoods Oil Pollution Running Through Towns Trains Will Worried

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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Bush Canyon Creating Every George George W George W. Bush Grand Grand Canyon Hawaiian In The Past Islands Miles Monument Monuments National Nearly Ocean Past Preserving President Roosevelt Square Teddy Waters Years 100 Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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