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Press Release Environmental Coalition Open Letter Demands Updated Pollution Regulations in Alabama The Alabama Department of Environmental Management must hold polluters accountable to the law and ensure our national parks and wilderness areas and their rangers, visitors, wildlife and surrounding communities have clear skies and clean air to breathe.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 307, H.R. 1088, H.R. 1179, H.R. 1487, & H.R. 2427 NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 22, 2019.
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Press Release National Parks Group Hosts College Students from Great Lakes' States at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to Restore Wetlands Students gather for workshop on restoring wetlands
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Policy Update NPCA position on legislation before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ahead of a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee business meeting scheduled for May 11, 2022, NPCA submitted the following positions on H.R. 268, S. 1344, S. 3141, S. 3667, S. 3551, S. 3685, & S. 4114.
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Magazine Article Front-Lawn Fishing The National Mall is flooding to the point that anglers can catch fish swimming among the cherry trees. Should the Park Service worry?
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Blog Post How Mukuntuweap National Monument Became One of the Nation's Most Popular Parks A century ago this Sunday, Zion National Park lost its Paiute-inspired name, in part because the National Park Service felt it was hard to pronounce and deterred prospective visitors. Now this Southwest park is the country’s third most popular national park and is struggling to deal with increasing crowds.
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Blog Post Knope Says Yup Washington, DC – The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) congratulates Leslie Knope on her decision to join the National Park Service as Midwest Regional Director. The newly created position will keep Leslie in her hometown of Pawnee, Indiana.
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Blog Post A Transformative Victory The largest power company in the United States is phasing out more of its coal plants. NPCA's Don Barger explains the significance of this major victory for clean air.
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Policy Update Position on Fiscal Year 2017 Energy and Water Appropriations (House Version) NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House of Representatives in support of funding in the Fiscal Year 2017 Energy and Water appropriations bill for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) ecosystem restoration priorities that benefit national parks.
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Blog Post Protecting Our Great Waters More than two-thirds of all national park units are located in Great Waters watersheds, and the ways we use the land around national parks impacts the quality and quantity of water in national parks.
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Press Release Sens. Warner, Portman Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Address National Park Service Maintenance Backlog NPS has a $12 billion backlog in deferred and overdue maintenance – half is critical transportation infrastructure
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Blog Post Saving What Makes Biscayne Special At Biscayne, many fish populations are on the verge of collapse, and the National Park Service must do more to help the park and its wildlife thrive again. In honor of World Ocean Day on June 8, NPCA's conservation director shares a long overdue way to protect this special place.
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Magazine Article The Long Way Home Opening a tribal house and closing a divide in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
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Press Release National Parks Group Applauds EPA's Final Bristol Bay Assessment for Warning of 15 Mines Beyond Pebble, Including 3 Prospects Adjacent to Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Statement by Melissa Blair, Alaska Program Manager, National Parks Conservation Association
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Press Release High Visitation, Low Funding and Staff Jeopardizing Parks National park visitation nears 331 million in 2017.
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Press Release Offshore Leasing Plan Threatens National Parks, Wildlife and Coastal Communities Atlantic, Pacific coasts could be open to leasing for first time in decades.
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Press Release National Parks Group Supports Nondalton Tribal Council's Opposition to Groundhog Mine Venture Near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Statement by Melissa Blair, Associate Director, Alaska Region, National Parks Conservation Association
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Magazine Article Candid Cameras In national parks around the country, camera traps capture images that astonish, delight, inform, reveal — and have the power to change human behavior.
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Press Release Utah Air Quality Board Approves Regional Haze Plan, Paving the Way for More Air Pollution in National Parks and Local Communities It is unacceptable that Utah is again failing to protect our parks, local economies and visitors, especially at a time when the state so desperately needs bold leadership to combat air pollution problems.
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Press Release Trump to the American People: Your Public Lands Aren’t Worth Protecting In a move that disregards millions of people including local tribes, today President Trump signed a proclamation to erase and gut protections at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
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Press Release Zinke Must Use Florida Trip to Call for Relief Funding for National Parks His visit comes at a critical time as the administration prepares their proposal to Congress to provide needed funding relief to devastated communities.
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Press Release Salazar Visits New York City to Discuss Role of Urban Parks in America's Great Outdoors Statement by NPCA Northeast Senior Program Manager Oliver Spellman
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Magazine Article The Indian Chief and the President In 1852, a 93-year-old Ojibwe chief traveled to Washington to stop the president from forcing his people off their ancestral lands.
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Press Release Parks, outdoor groups celebrate strengthened air pollution standards as a win for people and parks "These stronger standards will provide additional clean air protection for national parks, from Sequoia and Kings Canyon in California to Gateway Arch and Mammoth Cave National Parks in Missouri and Kentucky." —Ulla Reeves, Interim Director of NPCA's Clean Air Program
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Press Release Government Accountability Office Finds Secretary Bernhardt Violated Federal Law Today, the Government Accountability Office found that the Interior Department illegally used funds to keep national parks open during the recent government shutdown.
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Press Release At Annual Conference, Everglades Coalition Offers Solutions to Address Florida’s Water Crisis Coalition’s roadmap provides four-year guide for funding needs and timely Everglades restoration projects to complete
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Press Release American Indian and First Nations of Canada Tribes Sign Historic Agreement to Restore Bison The historic agreement formalizes intertribal collaboration to restore bison to tribal and appropriate non-tribal public lands.
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Blog Post How a Border Wall Could Harm Two Desert Parks: A Closer Look The federal government could soon install new bollard wall on portions of the southern border, including 78 miles of barriers near National Park Service land.
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Press Release Offshore Executive Order Threatens Coastal Parks Expanded drilling, marine sanctuary restrictions could endanger national parks.
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Blog Post 7 Facts About the Trump Administration’s Illegal Attack on National Monuments President Trump issued two proclamations to remove federal protections from roughly 2 million acres in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments — the largest reduction of public lands protections in U.S. history.
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