Search results for “Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area”
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Press Release Interior Favors Industry with Mining Road Approved through America’s Wildest National Park & Preserve The Department of Interior is turning a blind eye to the Park Service’s mission and rolling out the red carpet to international mining companies
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Policy Update NPCA position on H.R. 2773, H.R. 2872, and H.R. 3396 NPCA shared the following position ahead of a legislative hearing held by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife scheduled for July 29 th, 2021.
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Magazine Article Resurfacing The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering taking manatees off the endangered species list. But is it too soon?
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Magazine Article Landscape Poetry Artist Tom Killion has spent more than 40 years translating his love of the natural world into intricate, Japanese-style prints.
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Policy Update NPCA position on the nomination of Janet McCabe for Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency NPCA sent the following letter of support to the United States Senate ahead of the hearing to consider the nomination of Janet McCabe for Deputy Administrator of the EPA.
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Press Release Voyageurs National Park Threatened by Plans to Allow for Toxic Mining Even small amounts of contamination from this toxic mining will threaten public health and the park's fish, plants, wildlife and entire ecosystem for decades to come.
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Press Release Senators from 4 Border States Urge British Columbia to Clean Up Mining Operations that Threaten U.S. Waterways, Parks and Wildlife Eight senators urge British Columbia Premier to acknowledge the impacts of mining on U.S./Canadian rivers.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2, INVEST in America Act NPCA submitted the following positions to members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ahead of a markup scheduled for June 16, 2020.
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Blog Post A Glimpse into a Dark Part of America’s History A traveling park lover takes his mom into a windy desert landscape to try to imagine what life was like behind the barbed wire fences of a war relocation center more than 70 years ago.
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Blog Post NPCA-Sponsored Events Focus Attention on the "Ritchie Boys" and Their Legacy of Heroism from WWII In June, NPCA sponsored a two-day commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Camp Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Camp (MITC) in Cascade, Maryland, during WWII, the legacy of the “Ritchie Boys” who trained there, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) in protecting and interpreting sites in America's military history.
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Press Release Stephanie Kodish Director & Counsel for the Clean Air Program On Today's Carbon Pollution Rule Statement By Stephanie Kodish, Clean Air Program Director, National Parks Conservation Association
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Policy Update NPCA position on H.R. 149, H.R. 250, and H.R. 4706 NPCA shared the following positions ahead of a legislative hearing held by the U.S. House Natural Resources National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Subcommittee scheduled for October 14th, 2021.
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Press Release Interior Secretary Zinke Must Safeguard Parks Mixed Record Could put Parks, Public Lands at Risk
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Blog Post Why I Am Joining This Weekend’s Climate March The effects of climate change are wide-ranging and severe, but NPCA continues to fight the “greatest threat to the integrity of our national parks” — and it’s not too late to stand with us
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Blog Post The Other Washington Monument The marble obelisk on the National Mall is one of the country’s most famous structures — but it is not the oldest monument honoring America’s first president.
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Magazine Article Standing Guard Meet America’s Buffalo Soldiers—some of the nation’s first park rangers.
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Press Release Interior Ignores Joshua Tree National Park, Wildlife with Eagle Crest Project Approval In a move that threatens Joshua Tree National Park, wildlife and precious water resources, the Bureau of Land Management took the next step towards approving the contentious Eagle Crest pumped storage facility.
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Magazine Article The Anniversary Gift As Civil War sites continue to mark 150 years since America's most important conflict, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, and Gettysburg tell old stories in a new light.
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Blog Post Learn About Black History in 7 Unexpected Places These fascinating sites share important and often overlooked stories about people who shaped U.S. history and culture.
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Press Release National Park Waterways and Restoration Projects Approved With Senate Passage of Water Resources Bill U.S. Senate passes the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA), or water resource bill, which includes provisions that are important for improving the health of America’s national parks.
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Press Release Vela Steps Down as Acting Director of the National Park Service For more than three years, the National Park Service has been without a Senate-confirmed director.
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Press Release Near Canyonlands, BLM Moves to Lease First and Ask Questions Later “Rather than striking a balance between energy development and national park protection, this administration continues to lease first, and ask questions later."
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2740 and Amendments NPCA submitted the following positions to the House of Representatives ahead of anticipated floor votes starting June 12, 2019.
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Magazine Article Gift of the Glaciers Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers visitors beaches, bluffs, clear waters, and 10,000-year-old hills of sand.
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Press Release Omnibus Budget Boosts Funding for National Parks Makes Critical Investments in National Parks, Extends LWCF
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Magazine Article Raising the Bar Massimo Vignelli died in May, but his design lives on in the national parks.
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Policy Update Position on H.R. 2584 & H.R. 5210 NPCA submitted the following positions to the House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee ahead of a hearing scheduled for March 20, 2018.
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Blog Post Biden Restores National Monument Protections Last week, the administration restored protections to three public lands: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
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Press Release Subaru of America, National Parks Conservation Association, and National Park Foundation Team Up -- Eliminate 16 Million Pounds of Waste From National Parks Last year alone, Denali, Grand Teton and Yosemite cut the amount of waste going to landfills by nearly half as part of the Don't Feed the Landfills Initiative.
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Blog Post The Administration’s ‘Single Worst Environmental Rollback’ Recent changes to a foundational environmental law governing federal development projects will have far-reaching consequences for people and parks.
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