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David Yarnold: Keep green energy green

Audubon President David Yarnold has a new op-ed in papers around the country talking about the need to ensure that green alternative energy remain green, that we not rush into non-petroleum energy production without making certain that the impacts on the environment are avoided, or at least minimized:

Sound science and long-term planning can ensure that clean energy is clean after all. When Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring," it proved how birds serve as our early warning systems. The American West can be a proving ground for energy independence that respects nature's web of life. That's what the people who live there want and we should be smart enough to listen to them.

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