Frances Beinecke
Frances Beinecke
Frances Beinecke is the former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the nonprofit conservation group, serving since 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
writing president speak
Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.
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I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.
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House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.
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Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.
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I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
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The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
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The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards.