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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: American Because Carbon Families Harm Limits Protect Want Welcome

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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Atmosphere Carbon Dump How How Much Limits Mercury Much National Our Plants Pollution Power

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When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Apartment Around Communities Consider Daughters Extreme Globe How Left May Never New New York Realities School Storm Three Vulnerable Weather Whether Wondered York

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Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Action Being Climate Communities Demand Dirty Justice Keystone Leading Operations Over People Pipeline Push Rallies Reject Run Sands See Tar Young Young People I See

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Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Coal Exclude Fossil Fossil Fuels Foundations Fuels Gas Growing Investors Looking Money Movement Oil Out Pension People Portfolio Pressure Stocks Universities Want Who

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For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Created Decades End Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Our Policies Reliance Supported Ultimately Will

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I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Amazing Change Cities Citizens Clouds College Day Earth Earth Day First Happened Hung Ordinary Out Over People Raw Rivers Say Something Spoke Students Tens Tens Of Thousands Then Thousands Thousands Of People Used Voices Washington Workers

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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Across After Altered California Climate Country Drought Face Farmers Flooded Government Government Officials Jersey Make Miami New New Jersey Officials People Plan Rebuild Record Rising Sandy Seas State Streets Struggling Talked Through Trying Worst

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The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Empty Get More Truth Truth Is Water You

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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: About Keystone Learn Looks More More People People Pipeline Proposed Sands Tar Worse

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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