NPCA's Timeline: 2001-present

2005:	Using the Clean Air Act, NPCA won a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior to protect Yellowstone National Park from the proposed Roundup coal-fired power plant.
June 6, 2005:	The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the submerged lands and tidelands of Glacier Bay National Park belong to the general public, as managed by the Park Service, and not the state of Alaska. NPCA filed an amicus brief in this case, in an effort to ensure that the area, and its wildlife, would be protected by the Park Service.
2005-2006:	NPCA mounts a successful national campaign that blocks the rewriting and weakening of the National Park Service's guiding management policies.
2007:	NPCA helps to secure a record $122-million funding increase for the National Park Service.
2008:	EPA bows to pressure from NPCA and others, and abandons its plans to weaken pollution standards that would have made it easier to build new coal-fired power plants near national parks, which would have marred scenic views and endangered visitors and wildlife in our parks.
2009:	Congress provides a reinvestment of more than $900 million in America's national park infrastructure as part of Economic Recovery Bill, creating jobs in rural and urban communities across the country.

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