Philip Gutis
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Phil Gutis is Communications Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a worldwide organization with more than 1.2 million members and activists that has been working to protect our health and the environment since 1970. He previously worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and started his career as a reporter for The New York Times. Read Phil’s blog at NRDC's Switchboard at http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/pgutis/

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Breaking News: Utah Leases Blocked!

Posted January 17, 2009 | 22:52:55 (EST)

The Bush Administration's attempt to lease some of our most treasured lands for oil drilling was blocked today by a federal district.

District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Interior's efforts to lease land that NRDC Trustee Robert Redford calls "one...

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We Need a Good Obama Speech. Now.

Posted December 18, 2008 | 13:25:59 (EST)

Call me a masochist. I've been doing some reading of Jimmy Carter's speeches lately and I'm struck by two points: he called for all the right stuff when it came to energy policy, but, and most importantly, he fell completely flat in inspiring us as a nation to rally and...

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