| On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency began repealing the Clean Power Plan, a rule created in 2015 to reduce pollution from coal-burning power plants in the United States. The plan sets targets to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent by the year 2030. These reductions would benefit people and birds by helping to slow the pace of climate change, reduce air pollution such as smog, expand renewable energy, and increase energy efficiency. The process of repealing the Clean Power Plan is lengthy and will include a public comment period, as well as expected court challenges. Stay tuned for future opportunities to take action to help protect the 314 species of North American birds that are threatened by the changing climate. Read more. |
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| Roseate Spoonbills feed on a mangrove island in Florida. |
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| Last month, tens of thousands of people from Alaska and across the United States submitted public comments to the Bureau of Land Management, calling on the agency to protect critical wildlife habitat in America’s largest public land: the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska in Alaska’s western Arctic. More than 15,000 of those comments came from Audubon members and supporters like you, which Audubon Alaska hand-delivered to the BLM Alaska office. In particular, the comments expressed concern for Teshekpuk Lake, a globally important wetlands complex where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterfowl from all over the world nest and raise their young each summer. Read more. |
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| Yellow-billed Loons nest in the wetlands surrounding Teshekpuk Lake. |
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