Mr. President, We Have a Few Issues . . .

A little light reading (391 pages) for the President-Elect, courtesy of 29 environmental groups that collaborated to bring attention to the most important issues in a coherent form. They produced a comprehensive list of actions and policies they would like President-elect Barack Obama to adopt after he takes office January 20.

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The groups involved were:

* American Rivers
* Center for International Environmental Law
* Clean Water Action
* Defenders of Wildlife
* Earth Justice
* Environment America
* Environmental Defense Fund
* Friends of the Earth
* Greenpeace
* Izaak Walton League
* League of Conservation Voters
* National Audubon Society
* National Parks Conservation Association
* National Tribal Environmental Council
* National Wildlife Federation
* Native American Rights Fund
* Natural Resources Defense Council
* Oceana
* Ocean Conservancy
* Pew Environment Group
* Physicians for Social Responsibility
* Population Connection
* Population Action International
* Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
* Sierra Club
* The Wilderness Society
* The Trust for Public Land
* Union of Concerned Scientists
* World Wildlife Fund

That 29 discrete and diverse organizations could collaborate and produce a document of this scope in the time they had is amazing. Another miracle is that President-elect Obama's office accepted the document. This is quite a change from the current administration. Remember this? White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail - NYTimes.com

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