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美国自然资源保护委员会（NRDC）

美国自然资源保护委员会（NRDC）是一个总部设在纽约的环境倡导团体。它是一个非营利、非党派组织，在华盛顿特区、旧金山、洛杉矶、圣莫妮卡和北京设有代表机构。美国自然资源保护委员会创建于1970年，今天在全国已有一百二十万会员和网上活动家，职员中包括科学家、律师和其它各领域的专家，总人数超过250人。美国自然资源保护委员会和塞拉俱乐部、美国环保协会、世界资源研究所和地球正义等组织一道成为美国重要的环保组织。

美国自然资源保护委员会是美国最为有效的环境行动组织。它运用法律、科学和一百二十万成员和在线活动家的支持来保护地球的野生动植物并确保为所有生物提供一个安全和健康的环境。该组织重点关注当今世界最为紧迫的环保问题，例如全球气候变暖、对石油的依赖、有毒物污染、海水枯竭和荒地逐渐消失等。

美国自然资源保护委员会致力于促进所有人的基本权利，使人们在影响他们环境的决策上发出自己的声音。这一组织力求打破有色人种以及受到社会或经济不平等待遇的人群不成比例地承受环境负担这一状况。该组织最根本的任务是帮助人类创造一种崭新的生活方式，这种新的生活方式能够在不污染且不耗尽地球所有生命赖以生存的自然资源的前提下永远地持续下去。

美国自然资源保护委员会寻求办法来捍卫人类健康、环境和逐渐消失的自然风景，并反对城市蔓延、污染和对于栖息地的破坏。该组织的首要任务包括全球变暖和非石油能源技术、捍卫儿童和社区健康并保护海洋栖息地。

美国自然资源保护委员会致力于促进强有力的法律措施的通过来实现这些目标，这些法律中包括《清洁能源法》和《清洁水法》。该组织还坚决确保这些法案的实施。美国自然资源保护委员会的律师们已经利用法庭强制几十个污染者清洁污染物，与此同时，该组织还与两百多个大中小企业合作制定安全有效的环境解决办法。

2001年，美国自然资源保护委员会启动了生态瑰宝项目（BioGems Initiative）来动员对此关切的个人捍卫异常和处于危险中的生态系统。这一项目将美国自然资源保护委员会在法庭和宣传倡导方面的专业知识与公民活动者的热情与决心结合在了一起。这些公民活动者已经向公司和政府官员们发出了七百多万条信息号召他们行动起来保护荒地。

在卡特里娜飓风后，美国自然资源保护委员会是在新奥尔良参与社区活动的全国重要环保组织之一。

美国自然资源保护委员会还在《核科学家通讯》上发表了一系列关于全球核武器储备的研究结论，包括专论和个别研究。2006年12月，美国自然资源保护委员会和绿日（Green Day）合作开通了一个网站已提高人们对于美国对石油的依赖这一问题的认识。

NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Beijing. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1.2 million members and online activists nationwide, and a staff of more than 250 scientists, attorneys, and other specialists. Along with Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, World Resources Institute and Earthjustice, NRDC is a leading US environmental group.

NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. NRDC uses law, science and the support of 1.2 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. It is a group that looks at the world's most urgent environmental problems of our time -- global warming, oil dependence, toxic pollution, emptying oceans, disappearing wildlands.

It works to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. It seeks to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

The NRDC seeks solutions to defend human health, the environment, and vanishing natural landscapes against urban sprawl, pollution, and habitat destruction. Top priorities include global warming and non-petroleum energy technologies, guarding children's and community health; and protection of ocean habitats.

To achieve these goals, NRDC works to pass strong legal safeguards like the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act, and fights to make sure they are enforced. While NRDC lawyers have used the courts to force dozens of polluters to clean up, the organization has also worked with more than 200 companies of all sizes to devise safe, cost-effective environmental solutions.

In 2001, NRDC launched the BioGems Initiative to mobilize concerned individuals in defense of exceptional and imperiled ecosystems. The initiative matches NRDC's courtroom and advocacy expertise with the passion and determination of citizen activists who have sent more than 7 million messages to corporations and government officials calling for wildland protections.

NRDC was also one of the only major national environmental organizations to become and stay involved with community activists on the ground in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

The NRDC has also published a number of studies on nuclear weapon stockpiles around the world, both as monographs and as individual studies in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In December 2006, Green Day and NRDC opened a web site in partnership to raise awareness on America's dependency on Oil.