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Op-ed: climate bills are important for Lake County birds and people

Roberta Lyons, president of Redbud Audubon in Clear Lake, pens a strong opinion piece in the Record-Bee this weekend on the need for California to take aggressive action on climate legislation. She mentions how climate is predicted to reduce the lake's breeding populations of Western and Clark's Grebes if we fail to take action.

The California State Senate recently approved a slate of bills that will reduce the use of fossil fuels and set ambitious targets for renewable energy use. These bills are important to California not just because of the predicted impacts of global warming on birds, but because of what air pollution is doing to the state and its environment.

Western and Clark's Grebes rely on Clear Lake for nesting opportunities. Photo by Floyd Hayes.

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