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Clean Air-Cool Planet is the Northeast's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming.
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Northeast Indicators of Climate Change report
Massachusetts Clean Powered Campuses
Energy Efficiency and Renewables incentives
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NativeEnergy (Randolph, VT) This CA-CP partner since 2001 offers the WindBuilderssm program, enabling individuals and organizations to help build new wind farms through the purchase and retirement of tradable renewable energy credits. NativeEnergy's goal is to keep more than five million tons of CO2 from the air by driving construction of more than 150 commercial-scale wind turbines.
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What's Happening in the Northeast 
News, Events and Updates EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose a Threat In response to a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency was charged with researching the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions. In April 2009, the agency published its finding that GHGs pose a risk to human health, and named six gases that contribute to air pollution and endanger the public. Read the finding. The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk presents a program on Ocean Acidification April 22 Meet the Oceanographers
Ride for the Climate: We're going again! Last September, one hundred Climate Riders pedalled 320 miles from New York City to Washington D.C. Along the way, expert speakers inspired Climate Riders about the science, the policies and the solutions to the climate crisis. To learn more and sign up for Climate Ride 2009, visit www.climateride.org.  Regional Climate Leadership Learn more about what’s happening where YOU live...
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Creative Solutions Check out our Climate Champions. Know a Climate Champion? Email us to submit your nomination. Success Stories Read case studies of climate action by Northeast companies, campuses, and others.
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Ocean acidification is the phenomenon by which increased CO2 absorption in oceans results in decreased pH levels, which has the potential to cause catastrophic change to biodiversity and foodwebs, especially through its impacts on organisms with calcareous shells or exoskeletons. Come and learn about this issue at "Meet the Oceanographers" on April 22nd at the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, CT. 
action--and we're doing it again in 2009.
