In coming months, this campaign, which is based at the Center for American Progress and works with partners from the Natural Resources Defense Council to Consumers Union, MoveOn.org to the Apollo Alliance, will launch new challenges to our elected leaders, but it will also point to good work that is already going on all around the country.

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Those insights are drawn from an annual report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released today as the nation gears up for Memorial Day Weekend.

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This mandate came from a lawsuit brought against the EPA by the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1992 that accused the EPA of taking too long to list coal-fired power plants as sources of mercury.

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