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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Angeles Area County Gabriel Los Los Angeles Most Nation Open Open Space San Space Starved Stretching Urban Valley

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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Accessible Character Declaring Gabriel Life Maintain Make Monument More Mountains National Natural People Same Same Time San Time Walks Welcome Wild Will Wonder

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The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Extraordinary Gabriel Greater Heritage Like Monument More Natural Need Our Places Safeguarding San Utah

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I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Change Climate Climate Change Economic Environmental Health Humanitarian Issue Justice Long Only Understood Well

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The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Also Array Childhood Communities Diabetes Diverse Gabriel Highest Obesity Open Open Space Rates Rich San Some Space Starved State Stretching Valley

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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Border Bring California Creating Draft Helped Hope Law Mexican More Network Ocean Oregon Our Parks Pass Shared Spots Stretching Underwater Waters

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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Agriculture American Climate Economy Entire Larger Nation Oceans Our Oxygen Percent Produce Sector Shape Support Than Up

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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: America Back Chemical Fail Hospitals Industry Out Proposed Schools Would

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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Brain Cost Damage Dollar Gallon Gasoline Getting Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Industry Just Kids Lead Oil Out Penny Protect Thousands Toxic Turned Would

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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Closer Distant Ecosystems Healthy Help Home How Islands Marine May Monument National Our Pacific Remote Revive Seas Shores Troubled Understand Us Will Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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