Rhea Suh
Rhea Suh is president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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Views Monday, April 22, 2019 Three Earth Day Lessons for Green New Deal Activists In April 1970, about 20 million Americans turned out for the first Earth Day, attending speeches, demonstrations and other community-based events in what the New York Times called “among the most participatory political actions in the nation’s history.” Nearly 50 years on, the movement spawned by... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Senate Rejection of Green New Deal Won't Slow Americans' Desire for Climate Action The Republican-led Senate is poised to vote down, as early as Tuesday, a resolution laying out the broad ambitions of a Green New Deal, before the Congress, or the country, can even discuss its potential to help fight climate change. There’s more at stake, here, than a resolution. Republican... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 28, 2017 This Is How We Can Avoid Climate Catastrophe Two years ago in Paris , the United States, China, and more than 190 other countries agreed to protect our people and our planet from the growing dangers of global climate change , the very dangers we’re seeing now, right before our eyes. We’re seeing the consequences in storms, floodwaters , and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 06, 2017 The Undeniable, Commonsense Response to Harvey As the winds raged and the floodwaters rose in Houston and other Gulf Coast cities last week, the nation rightly focused on the human catastrophe—the lives lost, homes destroyed, and futures upended. In the hard weeks, months, and years to come, we’ll need a national response to assist community-... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 31, 2017 Hurricane Harvey: Another American Deluge In just three days, more rain fell on the Texas Gulf Coast than what flows out of the Mississippi River in three full weeks. Tiny Cedar Bayou got 51.9 inches , the most ever measured for a single storm in the continental United States. Hundreds of thousands of people were washed out of their homes... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 30, 2017 A Budget That Scorches the Planet President Trump opened a new front in his assault on our environment and health last week, releasing detailed budget proposals that amount to a scorched-earth campaign—literally and figuratively. The budget calls for draconian cuts in programs that help clean up and protect our air, water, and... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 28, 2017 I'll Be at the Peoples Climate March Because a Threat to the Environment Is a Threat to Public Health This Saturday, April 29th, tens of thousands of people will gather for the Peoples Climate Movement march in Washington, D.C., to express unwavering support for continued action to combat climate change—and to call for putting the interests of the American people ahead of polluters. In different... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 22, 2017 Standing Up for Our Values in the Age of Trump Donald Trump opened his presidency Friday with actions directly at odds with American values, job creation, and prosperity—actions at odds even with his own inaugural address . As he vowed to hold companies to account for moving jobs overseas, he and his team began working to free those same... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Solidarity with Standing Rock Some environmental victories come in the form of a single, decisive moment: the president’s signing of an executive order, for example, or the long-awaited announcement of a jury verdict or Supreme Court decision. Other victories are more incremental: less the result of a moment than a movement,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 21, 2016 California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant For years, some have claimed that we can’t fight climate change without nuclear power, because shutting down nuclear plants would mean burning more fossil fuels to generate replacement electricity. That’s wrong, of course, and now we have the proof. Today, California’s Pacific Gas and Electric... Read more |