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• Policy Update Position on H.R. 959 and H.R. 1289 Sep 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation considered on the floor of the House on September 16, 2015.
• Blog Post Remembering the Manongs and Story of the Filipino Farm Worker Movement May 2017 | By Dennis Arguelles In the 1920s and 30s, Filipino immigrants arrived in the United States seeking fortune but facing discrimination as they worked in the vast agricultural fields of the West. These “manongs” played a significant role in building the farm workers movement, organizing and striking alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
• Policy Update Position on H.J.Res. 38, Disapproving the Stream Protection Rule Feb 2017 NPCA sent the following position to the Senate and House of Representatives ahead of anticipated floor votes in both chambers.
• Policy Update Testimony: Department of the Interior Reorganization May 2019 Written statement by John Garder, NPCA Senior Director of Budget and Appropriations, for the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on April 30, 2019.
• Magazine Article Slip Sliding Away? Summer 2012 | By John Grossmann Hydraulic fracturing could endanger the American eel and harm the longest undammed river on the Eastern Seaboard.
• Blog Post Fifty Years Later: Wilderness & Civil Rights in the Same Breath Sep 2014 | By Lauret Savoy This summer marks the 50-year anniversary of two landmark pieces of legislation—the Civil Rights Act and the Wilderness Act—that are linked more closely than they might seem.
• Policy Update Position on Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 Sep 2019 NPCA submitted the following statement to members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations ahead of a markup scheduled for September 26, 2019.
• Policy Update Position to EPA on Air Quality Standards Proposed Rule Sep 2020 NPCA, along with partners, sent the following letter to EPA Administrator Wheeler regarding the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Particualte Matter proposed rule.  
• Press Release America's Great Waters Coalition Gather on Capitol Hill to Discuss Challenges Facing America's Great Waters May 2011 America’s Great Waters Coalition met with decision makers about the challenges facing the nation’s 19 Great Waters
• Blog Post Major Victory for Clean Air Will Help Reduce Dangerous Levels of Soot Jul 2012 | By Mark Wenzler Health groups, environmentalists, and state governments won a major victory for clean air last month when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed tighter regulations on one of the most dangerous air pollutants we breathe every day: soot.
• Blog Post 2 Million Gallons of Pig Waste Next to a National River? What a Load of Hogwash! Jun 2013 | By Emily Jones NPCA and its advocates are fighting an industrial confined animal feeding operation designed to hold thousands of hogs just 6 miles upstream from America's first national river.
• Blog Post Say No to Soda Mountain Solar Apr 2015 | By David Lamfrom Why say no to Soda Mountain Solar? NPCA has 6 reasons highlighting what's at stake near Mojave National Preserve.
• Magazine Article Remembering Stonewall Fall 2016 A spark, a movement and now, a monument.
• Policy Update NPCA Position on H.R. 3540, H.R. 4677, & H.R. 5973 Jan 2022 NPCA sent the following letter to members of the relevant committee ahead of a legislative markup held by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife scheduled for January 20, 2022. 
• Policy Update Position on S. 1079, Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act May 2019 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining ahead of a hearing scheduled for May 14, 2019.
• Magazine Article Following the Flood Fall 2022 | By Katherine DeGroff How a foot race helps one Pennsylvania town remember a historic tragedy.
• Blog Post In Baltimore, the Red and the Blue Wave Together as One Dec 2016 | By Jim Stratton The flag at Fort McHenry reminds us what America stands for and how our nation has endured through decades of challenges.
• Blog Post Victory: Incinerator Project Defeated at Monocacy Dec 2014 | By Joy M. Oakes County officials in Maryland vote down a trash-burning incinerator that would have been just yards from a Civil War battlefield.
• Blog Post To Have a Functioning Democracy, We Need Truth and Justice Mar 2021 | By Ramadji Doumnandé I lived through three bloody coup d’états before coming to the U.S. To move forward from violence and division, we must be able to denounce propaganda, speak our truth and find common ground.
• Magazine Article A River Spectacle Spring 2022 | By Katherine DeGroff Endangered mussels live on (and on) in the St. Croix.
• Blog Post Unexpected Lessons from a Week in the Woods Jun 2013 | By Scott Kirkwood What can a person learn from a week in the woods? A lot, it turns out. But for me, none of it was quite what I was expecting.
• Policy Update Position on H.R. 2982, New York-New Jersey Watershed Protection Act Jul 2023 NPCA submitted the following position to members of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries ahead of a hearing scheduled for July 27, 2023.
• Magazine Article A Mammoth Discovery Fall 2015 | By Jennifer Errick The lucky find that led to the creation of a monument.
• Blog Post Reflecting on Selma, 50 Years Later Mar 2015 | By Frank Peterman On March 7, 1965, courage and villainy collided on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, when John Lewis and more than 500 other peaceful protesters marched for their constitutional right to vote.
• Magazine Article Lost and Found Spring 2010 | By Amy Leinbach Marquis College students make a stunning discovery that benefits Maggie Walker National Historic Site.
• Policy Update Position on S. 15 and S. 1230 Jun 2015 NPCA submitted the following positions on legislation being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 9, 2015.
• Blog Post Confronting America's Dark Past Feb 2022 | By Glenn Nelson 80 years ago, the federal government imprisoned innocent civilians for their Japanese ancestry. Today, survivors and their descendants fight to preserve the sites where these injustices took place — and to not let history repeat itself.
• Magazine Article Living Monuments Fall 2018 | By Kate Siber Ian Shive traveled to the corners of the sea to document the watery wonders of the nation’s marine monuments.
• Blog Post Biden Restores National Monument Protections Oct 2021 Last week, the administration restored protections to three public lands: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. 
• Blog Post Fishy Business Jun 2014 | By Christine R. Goepfert Giant invasive fish are injuring boaters in the Midwest? Crazy but true. A new law will help corral these intruders.

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