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For three decades, Environmental Defense has built a track record of wins that have made a difference.
- 1967: A small group of scientists forms our organization to win a U.S. ban on DDT, which harmed wildlife and tainted mother’s milk.
- 1975: Our economic model leads California regulators to call for energy efficiency rather than new coal and nuclear plants.
- 1985: Our scientists help convince federal regulators to phase lead out of gasoline, leading to a dramatic decline in childhood lead poisoning.
- 1987: We play a key role in the treaty to phase out CFCs, chemicals that damage the Earth’s ozone layer.
- 1990: The Clean Air Act uses our market-based design. Acid rain is reduced faster than expected, at a fraction of the predicted cost.
- 1991: McDonald’s accepts the recommendations of our joint task force, eliminating more than 300 million pounds of packaging waste.
- 1997: Our cap-and-trade architecture becomes the basis of the U.S. global warming proposal adopted at Kyoto.
- 2002: We assemble the science showing that marine protected areas boost fish populations dramatically.
- 2003: Our advocacy helps end Congress’s moratorium on market-based “catch share” methods to protect fisheries.
- 2004: The first FedEx hybrid-electric trucks hit the road. The new vehicles reduce soot by 96% and go 57% farther on a gallon of fuel.
- 2006: California passes the nation's first statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions, a measure we conceived of and helped draft.
- 2007: Our hard-hitting campaign against the Texas utility TXU leads to a landmark buyout deal that blocked a new wave of dirty coal plants.
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