NPCA Opposes Senate Resolution that threatens National Parks Impacted by Climate Change 

Last year the Supreme Court ruled to give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Now, some members of Congress are working to stop the EPA from acting to use the Clean Air Act to reduce global warming pollution from big polluters. NPCA is working with a broad coalition of organizations from the public health and conservation community to make sure that the EPA can continue to clean up global warming pollution and protect America’s National Parks.

Climate change is already impacting our parks from the deep-south to the far-north. In the Great Smoky Mountains, increasing stream temperatures threaten native trout populations and invasive species threaten forest found nowhere else in the world. In Alaska’s national parks, warming arctic temperatures are altering vital habitats for caribou, polar bears, and many species of birds. We need to act now, not later, to protect these special places.

If those in Congress working to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gas pollution from our country’s largest polluters are successful America’s national parks have a lot to lose. At NPCA we think it is time to get to work on cleaning up greenhouse gas pollution. Rather than working to stop EPA we hope Congress will work to pass comprehensive climate change legislation that will create jobs, protect our national parks and park wildlife, and change the way we think about energy production.

Read a sign-on letter to the Senate from over 30 national organizations that oppose this resolution >