Rhea Suh
Rhea Suh is president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
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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 |
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Views Wednesday, May 04, 2016 Time for Obama to Bring Flint Water Crisis Mess to an End "Enough." That is the single word we have for the President when he arrives in Flint. President Obama deserves recognition for acknowledging the Flint water crisis before other decision makers would. His words helped push City, State and EPA officials to finally move on the issue. His trip to Flint... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 25, 2016 Two Years of Tragedy in Flint The water in Flint, Michigan, is still unsafe to drink — two years after the crisis was set in motion. Badly needed federal assistance has been marooned by a handful of congressional Republicans. And the larger national problem of lead in too much of our drinking water is yet to be addressed . The... Read more |