Number: 2011-06 WHEREAS, the practice of uranium mining, the milling of yellowcake, and the disposal of radioactive waste continues to have negative impacts in the American West and Navajo Nation, including radon exposure and groundwater contamination, leading to  human health issues including lung cancer, bone cancer, leukemia, birth defects, weakened immune systems, hormone disruption, and damag ...[Read More]

Number: 2011-03 WHEREAS, the Hawaiian Islands already represent the extreme end of the spectrum of species extinction and endangerment in the U.S.; and WHEREAS, at least 71 Hawaiian birds have become extinct since human colonization of the Hawaiian Islands; and WHEREAS, although the Hawaiian Islands make up just 0.2% of the total land mass in the U.S., 37% of all listed threatened and endangered b ...[Read More]

Number: 2011-05 WHEREAS, one significant and far-reaching threat to wildlife is the continued loss of habitat; and WHEREAS, loss of habitat is one result of environmentally inappropriate economic development; and WHEREAS, economic development proceeds in an effort to increase human well-being, as measured by Gross Domestic Product; and WHEREAS, economists have known and warned us for decades that ...[Read More]

Number: 2011-04 WHEREAS, the National Wildlife Federation is fully committed to protecting fish and wildlife and their habitats; and WHEREAS, there are an estimated 100 million tons of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean, concentrated by the ocean currents into an area about twice the size of Texas where samples have found 46 times more plastic than plankton; and WHEREAS, plastic is found in every ...[Read More]

Number: 2011-02 WHEREAS, the Deepwater Horizon disaster highlighted major deficiencies in the current regulatory framework for offshore drilling; and WHEREAS, oil spill response technology and capacity has improved little since the Exxon Valdez disaster two decades ago; and WHEREAS, the United States has an unacceptably high fatality rate in offshore oil and gas drilling, and the industry has a le ...[Read More]

Number: 2010-03   WHEREAS, global warming is a real and significant threat to wildlife, habitat and human health; and WHEREAS, all carbon-based (and even renewable) energy sources have negative environmental impacts, some such as the high carbon liquid fuels tar-sands oil, oil shale, and liquified coal have much greater impacts associated with their production; and WHEREAS, development of the ...[Read More]

Number: 2010-05   WHEREAS, the provisions of the Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, its amendments, and conditions imposed on yearly appropriations by Congress have resulted in excessive numbers of feral horses and burros on western rangelands; and WHEREAS, a large portion of these rangelands have experienced wildfire, drought or near drought conditions in the recent years and climate ...[Read More]

Number: 2010-06   WHEREAS, 80% of the United States population lives in urban areas, according to the US Forest Service; and WHEREAS, urban and suburban sprawl has eliminated, damaged and or fragmented wildlife habitat for both flora and fauna; and WHEREAS, the urban forest provides tangible environmental benefits such as carbon sequestration, storm water/flood retention, noise reduction, cle ...[Read More]

Number: 2010-10   WHEREAS, sharks have roamed our seas since before the time of dinosaurs, but their long reign at the top of the ocean food chain may be ending if measures are not taken to recover overharvested populations; and WHEREAS, due to their late maturation and low reproductive rates, shark species in our fisheries are among the most susceptible to overfishing; and WHEREAS, roughly 7 ...[Read More]

Number: 2010-04   WHEREAS, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), enacted as part of the 1985 Farm Bill and reauthorized in each successive Farm Bill approved by Congress, has proven to be one of the most successful conservation measures in history — reducing soil loss and improving water quality in the country’s more highly erodible watersheds and providing vital long-term habitat for ...[Read More]