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NRDC PolIcy BAsIcs FEBruAry 2013 Fs:13-02-d An IntroductIon to FederAl envIronmentAl PolIcy PAGE 1 | Policy Basics: An Introduction to Federal Environmental Policy About NrDC NRdc is the nation’s most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.4 million members and online activists to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Founded in 1970 by a group of law students and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement, NRdc lawyers helped write some of America’s bedrock environmental laws. Today, our dedicated staff of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and policy experts work with businesses, elected leaders, and community groups to solve the most pressing environmental issues we face today. We have offices in New york, Washington, chicago, los Angeles, san Francisco and Beijing. With the support of our members and online activists, NRdc works on a broad range of issues as we pursue our mission to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. As AN iNstitutioN, wE hAvE sEvEN mAiN PrioritiEs: Curbing Global warming Protecting our health By climate change is the single biggest Preventing Pollution environmental and humanitarian crisis of We must reduce or eliminate the dangerous our time. We must act now to spur the chemicals in the products we buy, the food adoption of cleaner energy sources at we eat and the air we breathe.