<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><header class="span24 headline_block" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; max-width: 960px; width: 960px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><h2 class="slug" style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; position: relative; color: rgb(50, 100, 151);">ADVOCACY</h2><h1 class="headline" style="font-size: 18px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How environmental NGOs are shifting conversation on climate and energy</h1><section class="byline" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-weight: bold;"><time datetime="2017-05-01 10:00:00 -0400" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class=""><font size="4" class="">OnPoint: Monday, May 1, 2017</font></time></section></header><section class="span24" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; max-width: 960px; width: 960px; clear: both; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><section class="long_description" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font size="4" class="">With President Trump making several significant moves on energy and environment policy in his first 100 days, how are environmental groups shifting strategy? During today's OnPoint, Howard Learner, president and executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, discusses the role nongovernmental organizations will play in the climate and energy conversation over the next four years.</font></p><p style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Today's OnPoint will air on <a href="https://www.eenews.net/tv" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">E&ETV</a> at 10 a.m. EDT.</font></p><div class=""><a href="https://www.eenews.net/tv/videos/2223/preview" class=""><font size="4" class="">https://www.eenews.net/tv/videos/2223/preview</font></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div></section></section><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">############################################################################<br class=""><br class="">“Climate has long been identified as a primary control on the geographic distribution of plants (Forman 1964, Box<br class="">1981). Therefore, plant species may be expected to exhibit marked redistributions in response to climate change. <br class="">Fossil pollen records from the Holocene period document such responses for a variety of plant species (e.g., <br class="">Delcourt and Delcourt 1988, Malanson 1993, Williams et al. 2004). In addition, species are expected to be <br class="">redistributed independently, forming new forest types with unique species combinations (Webb 1992, <br class="">Williams et al. 2004).”<br class=""><br class="">McKenney et al. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Distribution of North American Trees. Bioscience 2007</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">“Forests are shaped by climate. Along with soils, aspect, inclination, and elevation, climate determines</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> what will grow where and how well. Changes in temperature and precipitation regimes therefore have</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> the potential to dramatically affect forests nationwide. “<br class=""> <br class="">Robert W. Malmsheimer, Patrick Heffernan, Steve Brink, Douglas Crandall, Fred Deneke, Christopher Galik, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Edmund Gee, John A. Helms, Nathan McClure, Michael Mortimer, Steve Ruddell, Matthew Smith, and John </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Stewart. Forest Management Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change in the United States. Journal of Forestry April/May 2008</div></div>
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