THE PLANET IS NOT A FUCKING DISPOSABLE COFFEE CUP.

Welcome to Greens. No, we did not assemble this caucus to shame you for a plastic straw while a major polluter orders another commemorative yacht. We'd rather know who contaminated the water, who authorized it, who made money, and who gets the medical bill.

We're the Mugwumps who insist that land, water, air, wildlife, public health, energy and the climate belong in the same conversation as jobs, housing and the price of groceries. The earth is not an optional extracurricular. Neither are the people who work on it.

The question isn't whether you own a reusable tote bag. It's whether the children can breathe, the river is safe, the grid holds up, the workers can earn a living, and someone can prove the plan delivers. Please bring data. Bring your doubts, too. The compost bin is already full of bullshit.

GREENS | GR

The Greens caucus follows environmental health and ecological stewardship within Mugwumps. We investigate pollution, water rights, public lands, climate risks, biodiversity, energy infrastructure and who pays the costs of both environmental damage and environmental policy.

We are NOT the Green Party of the United States, and this name does not imply their endorsement or a common platform. We borrow the history of green politics as a subject worth examining. Our members may follow any of the other twelve caucuses too. You don't need to surrender independent judgment in exchange for a houseplant.

ROOTS · BEFORE THE LOGO, THE RIVERS WERE ALREADY COMPLAINING

Environmental politics has many ancestors: Indigenous stewardship, conservation, public-health campaigns against polluted air and water, wilderness preservation, labor struggles over toxic jobs, anti-nuclear organizing and social movements seeking a say in decisions about their neighborhoods. They did not all share a party or a philosophy. Sometimes they disagreed sharply about who owned land, how much industry was acceptable and whose interests came first.

Modern Green parties emerged internationally during the 1970s, shaped by ecological and anti-nuclear movements. West Germany's Greens became particularly visible in the early 1980s, advancing ecology, social justice, grassroots democracy and nonviolence. Green movements also formed in Australia, New Zealand and Britain. The United States' organizing developed from those and domestic sources, rather than springing fully formed from one activist with an especially persuasive fern. (Sources 01, 02)

The American Green organizing movement convened in St. Paul in August 1984; it developed a Ten Key Values framework and decentralized local groups. A national electoral Green Party later developed through state and national organizing. That independent party still exists. The Mugwumps' Greens caucus is a separate educational affinity, not a claim to have inherited its membership, ballot line or program. (Sources 01, 03)

THE HISTORY IS NOT ALL CLEAN AIR AND CUTE POSTERS

Conservation can protect land and wildlife while also excluding Indigenous people from decision-making or ignoring historic land dispossession. Energy development may create jobs while imposing pollution on neighboring residents. A ban can improve health and impose transition costs on workers. We should be able to discuss those effects without turning every dispute into 'nature versus civilization.' The people are part of the ecology, darling.

FUN FACT · A RIVER CAUGHT FIRE. THEN A REPUBLICAN CREATED THE EPA.

The Cuyahoga River near Cleveland had become notorious for industrial pollution and fires, including a 1969 blaze. Public outrage over urban smog, contaminated waterways and oil spills helped build momentum for federal environmental legislation. In 1970 President Richard Nixon signed a reorganization plan establishing the Environmental Protection Agency, which began operating that December. Politics is delightfully inconvenient for anybody who insists one modern party invented every environmental protection. (Sources 04, 05)

And here's the lesson: passing a law and building an agency are not magic spells. Enforcement, measurement, funding, judicial interpretation and changing rules determine what actually happens afterward. A ribbon-cutting does not purify the river. The river has to be tested.

→ Explore Protect NOAA & Public Scientific Data

TODAY · THE ENVIRONMENT IS THE PLACE YOU LIVE, NOT A SCREENSAVER

THE SCIENCE IS A QUESTION OF EVIDENCE

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in its 2023 synthesis that human activities, especially greenhouse-gas emissions, have unequivocally caused global warming. The report also identifies unequal harms across regions and populations. That establishes an evidentiary baseline; it doesn't dictate one single tax, technology mix, land-use rule or budget as the only legitimate response. The policy arguments still require cost, feasibility and distributional analysis. (Source 06)

THE LAW CAN CHANGE. THE ATMOSPHERE DOESN'T READ THE PRESS RELEASE.

In February 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized rescission of its 2009 greenhouse-gas endangerment finding for motor vehicles and repealed related vehicle greenhouse-gas standards. The agency framed the action as a regulatory and legal change; climate scientists' physical conclusions are a different question. Harvard's Environmental and Energy Law Program has tracked the rescission and related litigation and regulatory developments. Laws can change while the underlying scientific observations remain subject to measurement. (Sources 07, 08)

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IS HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS

Unsafe drinking water, asthma-inducing pollution, wildfire smoke, extreme heat and contaminated land can impose medical expenses, lost work, disrupted schooling and infrastructure costs. Residents and workers may face exposure without controlling the decisions that cause it. Environmental rules can reduce risks, but the rules themselves should also be evaluated for costs, benefits, access and unintended consequences.

JOBS, GRID RELIABILITY AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Power systems require generation, wires, storage, maintenance, permitting, materials and trained workers. Fossil fuels, nuclear energy, hydropower and renewables have different operating characteristics and environmental effects. We should compare them honestly rather than announcing that one technology is a personality disorder. Decarbonization, affordability, reliability, safety, domestic supply chains and worker transitions all deserve actual plans.

PUBLIC LANDS HAVE MORE THAN ONE CLAIMANT

The Bureau of Land Management administers about 245 million acres of surface land under a multiple-use and sustained-yield framework. Conservation, recreation, wildlife, grazing, mining and energy development compete and overlap. The questions are legal authority, ecological limits, public participation, Indigenous rights and evidence about consequences—not which side has the prettier campground photograph. (Source 09)

THE GREAT SALT LAKE · THE BILL COMES HOME TO UTAH

Here is a case where the ecosystem is not a faraway rainforest on a fundraising brochure. Utah's Great Salt Lake has experienced major water-level declines. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources reported a Saltair Harbor level of 4,190.0 feet on November 8, 2026. An exact point-in-time gauge reading is not the lake's entire story, but it makes clear that lake management requires continuous monitoring, not folklore about a particularly wet winter. (Source 10)

The lake supports wetlands, migratory birds, brine shrimp, recreation, industry and surrounding communities. As lakebed becomes exposed, windblown dust can affect air quality. USGS research published in 2025 identified potential health concerns from exposed sediments, including risks relevant to children; it did not establish that every dust event contains identical concentrations or that every illness has already been caused by the lake. Do not turn a real hazard into a sloppy headline. (Source 11)

Utah's Great Salt Lake strategic plan calls for conserving water across municipal, industrial and agricultural sectors, quantifying savings, and ensuring that conserved water actually reaches the lake. That's the fun part everybody skips in the victory speech: saving water on paper and delivering measurable inflows are different achievements. The plan also recognizes competing ecological, economic and human-health interests. (Source 12)

WHOSE WATER? WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY?

A lake cannot negotiate a water-rights agreement, so people must. Agriculture, cities, industries, tribes, ecosystems and future generations have distinct legal and practical interests. A workable plan needs hydrology, enforceable rules, funded implementation and public reporting. Treating every irrigator as a villain or every conservationist as an idiot will not create an acre-foot of water.

→ Explore Restore the Great Salt Lake & Western Waters

→ Explore Great Salt Lake & Western Water

WHAT GREENS ACTUALLY INVESTIGATE

01 · THE AIR YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD BREATHES

Where are pollutants measured? Which emissions are regulated? How does exposure differ across neighborhoods, occupations and seasons? What evidence connects a proposed remedy to health outcomes? Check the monitor before writing the slogan.

02 · THE WATER IN THE TAP, FIELD AND WETLAND

Who holds water rights, what supplies are sustainable, how much evaporates, what is being discharged, and where does conserved water actually go? The spreadsheet can be inconvenient. So is a dry reservoir.

03 · WHO PAYS WHEN A COMPANY POLLUTES?

Look at permits, monitoring data, contamination cleanup, financial assurance, bankruptcy, enforcement and restitution. If the profit is private but the cleanup is everybody else's bill, ask why the contract is written that way.

04 · WHAT HAPPENS TO WORKERS?

A community dependent on mining, farming, refining, forestry or manufacturing deserves a serious transition plan, not a lecturing postcard from somebody who works remotely beside an expensive succulent.

05 · WHO SPEAKS FOR THE LAND?

Tribal sovereignty, treaties, local public health, science, ecological systems and democratic participation should inform land decisions. Conservation must not become another excuse to disregard Indigenous communities or rural residents.

06 · WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?

Track water levels, pollutant concentrations, habitat condition, costs, energy reliability, employment outcomes, exposure reduction and compliance. A grant announcement isn't a recovered wetland. A shiny solar panel isn't evidence that the power line reaches anybody.

POLICY TAGS · THE PLANET DOES NOT ACCEPT STORE CREDIT

Clean Air · Clean Water · Great Salt Lake · Climate Adaptation · Renewable Energy · Grid Reliability · Public Lands · Biodiversity · Environmental Health · Pollution Accountability · Indigenous Stewardship · Science & NOAA · Wildlife · Water Rights · Wildfires · Labor Transitions · Transportation · Environmental Enforcement · Coastal & Ocean Health

These tags are inquiries and connections, not compulsory positions. Greens can disagree about nuclear power, water markets, carbon pricing, federal regulation, mining, road construction and the appropriate balance of local and national authority.

→ Explore Climate, Clean Air, Land & Resources

→ Explore Polluter Accountability, Environmental Prosecution & Remediation Funding

→ Explore Punish Polluters

→ Explore National Climate Adaptation

→ Explore Protect Federal Public Lands

→ Explore Public Lands, Biodiversity & Resource Stewardship

→ Explore Data Centers, Grid Demand & Water

→ Explore Public Transportation for Everyone

→ Explore Global Ocean Cleanup: Pacific, Atlantic & Coastal Waters

SIMILAR TO · FOUR CAUCUSES THAT WILL BORROW OUR WATER TESTER

PROGRESSIVES | PG

Both examine public health, rights, evidence and whether reform improves everyday life. Greens focus especially on ecological limits and the long-term environmental consequences of development.

FARMER–LABOR | FL

Both care about workers, food, water, land and the people who keep systems running. We may disagree over an irrigation allocation or mine permit, but pretending the farmer and the river don't affect one another is not an option.

NEW DEALERS | ND

Both can study public infrastructure, energy security and disaster resilience. New Dealers may begin with a guarantee of services; Greens emphasize environmental constraints and the external costs the program must account for.

ANTI-EPSTEINS | AE

They scrutinize hidden influence and unaccountable power; Greens ask whether pollution decisions were captured by special interests and whether the public can see the permits, data and enforcement record.

LESS LIKE · BRING YOUR ARGUMENTS. LEAVE THE CULTURE WAR IN THE TRASH.

'Less like' means a difference in starting point, not a list of enemies. Every caucus is part of Mugwumps, and one member can follow several.

BOURBONS | BO

They begin with budgets, legal authority and measurable performance. We ask them to include hidden environmental and health costs in the ledger. They ask us what the solution costs and whether it works. Good. Keep arguing.

LIBERTARIANS | LT

They emphasize limits on state intrusion and private choice. Environmental damage can cross property lines, water basins and generations; the argument is which tools protect rights without creating unnecessary coercion.

STALWARTS | ST

They want to preserve institutions that perform reliably. We may press for changing infrastructure or industrial practices when long-term ecological damage is accumulating. They demand proof the replacement works.

GREENBACKS | GB

They study money creation, credit and financial architecture. Greens examine ecological and health consequences. Lending can influence land use, but a green label on a bond doesn't tell you whether the river improved.

FIFTY HYPOTHETICAL GREENS · AN IMPOSSIBLE EARTH DAY POTLUCK

Ten politicians, ten celebrities, ten television characters, ten book characters, ten wildcards. Real or fictional, living or historical. Each offers a useful environmental question or a warning about unintended consequences. These are illustrative comparisons—not memberships, endorsements, political diagnoses or a claim that anyone named would join this caucus.

Some people on the list disagree profoundly about climate law, public lands, energy or economics. Some characters should never be handed control of a national park. That's the point: a compelling example can teach us something without becoming a candidate or a saint.

01 · TEN POLITICIANS · THE COMMITTEE HAS DISAGREED ABOUT THE WEATHER

TEN HYPOTHETICAL COMPARISONS. ZERO ENDORSEMENTS. Each name illustrates a conservation question, policy tension or cautionary story. No actual affiliation is asserted.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Established national forests, refuges and monuments on a huge scale. A reminder that conservation has deep Republican history—and that preservation decisions must still confront Indigenous land rights and other costs. (Source 13)

RICHARD NIXON

Helped establish the EPA in 1970. Politics is complicated: a president need not be a modern Green to leave behind an environmental institution. (Source 04)

JIMMY CARTER

Championed conservation and energy security during oil shocks. His approach puts household costs, energy independence and conservation on the same table.

GEORGE H. W. BUSH

Signed the bipartisan 1990 Clean Air Act amendments addressing acid rain, urban air pollution and toxic emissions. Environmental policy has actually passed with members of both major parties voting yes. (Source 14)

AL GORE

Brought climate change into national electoral politics and public media. He offers a case study in how science communication becomes political—and how the underlying evidence should be evaluated separately from the messenger.

BARACK OBAMA

Participated in the 2015 Paris climate agreement and pursued federal climate and energy rules. A useful example of executive diplomacy that depended on later implementation and changing administrations.

JOHN MCCAIN

Co-sponsored major climate legislation with Senator Joe Lieberman. A reminder that Republicans and Democrats have debated greenhouse-gas controls through mechanisms other than slogans. (Source 15)

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Signed California's 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act as governor. An action-star governor is a very Hollywood way to encounter the technical details of emissions policy.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Co-introduced the Green New Deal resolution in 2019. It put jobs and climate policy together, while raising substantial questions about cost, implementation, technology and statutory authority.

DONALD TRUMP · POLICY CONTRAST

His administrations have pursued reversals of several federal climate and environmental regulations. The 2026 vehicle greenhouse-gas finding rescission is a concrete case for evaluating how legal authority, climate science, costs and regulatory policy differ. (Source 07)

02 · TEN CELEBRITIES · THE PRIVATE JET WILL BE DISCUSSED

TEN HYPOTHETICAL COMPARISONS. ZERO ENDORSEMENTS. Each name illustrates a conservation question, policy tension or cautionary story. No actual affiliation is asserted.

JANE FONDA

Has joined public climate protests for years. The Greens question isn't whether celebrity can attract attention; it's what happens after the cameras leave and people need a workable law.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Uses a large public platform to discuss climate and conservation. Environmental messaging from a celebrity still invites questions about scale, philanthropy, travel and measurable results.

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Spent decades bringing wildlife and ecosystems into living rooms; UNEP honored him with a lifetime achievement award in 2022. The nature documentary has sometimes taught more about ecosystems than a thousand committee meetings. (Source 16)

GRETA THUNBERG

Known for school-strike climate activism and direct challenges to government leaders. Urgency is one public role; deciding how to implement policy remains a different and necessary conversation.

BILLIE EILISH

Has incorporated climate and sustainability themes into touring and public activism. We'd ask about venues, electricity, fan travel and the difference between lower-impact merchandise and an overall tour footprint.

MARK RUFFALO

Has been publicly active on climate and fossil-fuel issues. His fictional green alter ego doesn't provide a substitute for actual emissions data or serious policy debate.

ROBERT REDFORD

Helped popularize independent cinema and supported environmental conservation. The outdoors may look beautiful on camera, but film production and local communities still have budgets and impacts.

HARRISON FORD

Serves as vice chair of Conservation International. There are worse uses for movie-star status than getting scientists, donors and decision-makers into the same meeting. (Source 17)

TAYLOR SWIFT · TRADEOFFS EXHIBIT

A massive tour makes travel, merchandise, energy and logistics highly visible. The question is how to measure impacts fairly, not to pretend that disliking a celebrity is an emissions inventory.

DOLLY PARTON

Her work and public image are strongly linked to the Smoky Mountains. She offers a useful reminder that tourism, conservation, local culture and employment all operate in the same landscape.

03 · TEN TV CHARACTERS · THE ENERGY BILL HAS ITS OWN EPISODE

TEN HYPOTHETICAL COMPARISONS. ZERO ENDORSEMENTS. Each name illustrates a conservation question, policy tension or cautionary story. No actual affiliation is asserted.

CAPTAIN PLANET · CAPTAIN PLANET AND THE PLANETEERS

A superhero literally assembled to fight pollution. Helpful in cartoons; in government, the five rings must be replaced by costed rules, engineers and a permit office.

LISA SIMPSON · THE SIMPSONS

Reads the reports, worries about ecological consequences and tries to change Springfield. Would like it noted that the town's environmental analysis contains no citations.

MR. BURNS · THE SIMPSONS

A very wealthy nuclear-plant owner whose decisions frequently illustrate the difference between private profit and public safety. Excellent case study. Terrible compliance officer.

LESLIE KNOPE · PARKS AND RECREATION

She loves a park, a public hearing and twenty-three binders. Greens appreciates all three, but would like to ask the people who live next to the proposed project.

RON SWANSON · PARKS AND RECREATION

A government parks employee who is skeptical of government. He would defend a quiet forest with the passion of a man who insists nobody should be allowed to make a meeting about it.

HANK HILL · KING OF THE HILL

Takes propane, household bills and practical safety seriously. We'd ask him to compare fuels, emissions and reliable service. He might bring the grill.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS · SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

Lives in an ocean ecosystem that is inexplicably full of consumer businesses. If Bikini Bottom's waters are contaminated, the Krusty Krab needs to look at more than its quarterly sales.

AANG · AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER

Respects balance among elements and communities. A useful metaphor for interconnected systems, but we cannot solve water allocation by asking someone to bend a river.

TURANGA LEELA · FUTURAMA

A competent pilot and frequent moral counterweight to a crew that treats space like a waste disposal site. At minimum she should have veto power over the Planet Express emissions report.

WALTER WHITE · BREAKING BAD · CAUTIONARY EXHIBIT

Industrial chemistry without public safety, ethics or adequate controls is not an environmentally responsible career pivot. The hazmat paperwork would be spectacular.

04 · TEN BOOK CHARACTERS · THE FOREST HAS REQUESTED AN ATTORNEY

TEN HYPOTHETICAL COMPARISONS. ZERO ENDORSEMENTS. Each name illustrates a conservation question, policy tension or cautionary story. No actual affiliation is asserted.

THE LORAX · THE LORAX

Speaks for trees that cannot testify at a zoning hearing. A memorable moral voice; the public agency still needs biological evidence, legal authority and a plan.

THE ONCE-LER · THE LORAX · CAUTIONARY EXHIBIT

Turns a resource into a business until the underlying ecosystem collapses. The profit forecast did not include the forest, which was rather a significant omission.

KATNISS EVERDEEN · THE HUNGER GAMES

Knows what a powerful capital can extract from distant districts and how resource dependence shapes daily life. The environmental question includes who controls the land and who receives its benefits.

SAMWISE GAMGEE · THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Would rather tend a garden than rule an empire. Protecting a community's ordinary life can be a substantial political goal even when no one writes a heroic anthem about fertilizer.

FRODO BAGGINS · THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Carries a destructive source of power across ruined landscapes and learns that saving a place demands sacrifice. Very moving; not a template for approving a transmission corridor.

HERMIONE GRANGER · HARRY POTTER

Would insist on learning the ecological law, collecting evidence and organizing classmates. Her organizing instincts are valuable; consent and proportionality still matter.

MARY LENNOX · THE SECRET GARDEN

Discovers how living things change when a neglected garden receives care. It's a lovely image, though rehabilitating an urban brownfield requires more than a key and good intentions.

ANNE SHIRLEY · ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Admires the natural world with uncommon attention. Greens would enjoy her enthusiasm and ask her not to turn the ecosystem report into a three-hour poetic monologue.

ISHMAEL · MOBY-DICK

Narrates human fascination with the ocean and an industry built around extracting whales. A contemporary discussion would include conservation, labor, culture and exploitation.

CAPTAIN AHAB · MOBY-DICK · CAUTIONARY EXHIBIT

An obsession consumes an entire crew and ignores the consequences. A useful warning that declaring a noble mission does not justify destroying everyone and everything around you.

05 · TEN WILDCARDS · THIS IS WHY THE WILDLIFE REFUGE NEEDS A GATE

TEN HYPOTHETICAL COMPARISONS. ZERO ENDORSEMENTS. Each name illustrates a conservation question, policy tension or cautionary story. No actual affiliation is asserted.

RACHEL CARSON · SCIENTIST AND AUTHOR

Her 1962 Silent Spring raised public concern over pesticide harms and helped change the national environmental conversation. Scientific arguments must be checked; the public also deserves to see the evidence. (Source 18)

JANE GOODALL · PRIMATOLOGIST

Her chimpanzee fieldwork changed animal-behavior research and inspired conservation education. She died in October 2025; her scientific and educational legacy continues through the Jane Goodall Institute. (Source 19)

WANGARI MAATHAI · GREEN BELT MOVEMENT

Organized tree planting and women's civic participation in Kenya, linking livelihoods, environmental restoration and democracy. She received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Source 20)

JOHN MUIR · CONSERVATION WRITER

Helped popularize wilderness preservation and founded the Sierra Club. His legacy also raises important questions about the exclusionary language and Indigenous displacement associated with historic conservation.

JACQUES COUSTEAU · OCEAN EXPLORER

Brought underwater ecosystems into popular television. We can admire the oceanography and still ask how tourism, exploration and marine protection coexist.

SMOKEY BEAR · PUBLIC-SERVICE MASCOT

Has spent decades asking visitors to prevent human-caused wildfires. We appreciate the public education; forest and fire management require more than an unforgettable hat.

WALL-E · PIXAR

Still cleaning up after consumer civilization apparently outsourced every unpleasant duty to a lonely robot. A magnificent cautionary story about waste and pretending there's always another planet.

GODZILLA · FILM ICON

A warning about nuclear devastation that often leaves an entire city uninhabitable. Not an appropriate choice for the Environmental Protection Agency's emergency planning staff.

KERMIT THE FROG · THE MUPPETS

A very recognizable amphibian. We'd like his wetland habitat tested, protected and managed by someone who understands that wetlands are more than scenery.

MOTHER NATURE · PERSONIFICATION

Never filed a lobbying disclosure and yet shows up in every public hearing. A good metaphor for ecological limits, but a lawsuit against an actual polluter still requires human institutions and enforceable laws.

THE DISCLAIMER · NO, A FROG DID NOT ENDORSE OUR PLATFORM

The historical, living and fictional figures above are hypothetical illustrations, not members, endorsers, future recruits or statements about anyone's voting intentions. Some are deliberate contrasts. No real person is claimed to endorse Mugwumps or any specific environmental policy because we included their name.

The current Green Party of the United States is an independent political organization. This Mugwumps caucus has no asserted organizational connection to it. Its policies, ballot status and members are not ours to claim.

THE GREEN TEST · BEFORE THE GRAND ENVIRONMENTAL ANNOUNCEMENT

01 · WHAT PHYSICAL PROBLEM ARE WE SOLVING?

Identify the pollutant, water shortage, habitat loss, health exposure or climate risk and the best available measurements. Separate observed facts from models and assumptions.

02 · WHO BENEFITS? WHO PAYS?

Include households, workers, neighboring communities, businesses, tribes, local governments and future users. Count health costs and ecological damage alongside compliance and transition costs.

03 · WHAT ARE THE REAL ALTERNATIVES?

Compare technology, regulation, incentives, infrastructure, adaptation, enforcement, restoration and no-action scenarios. If one option requires a nonexistent workforce or unaffordable maintenance, say so.

04 · WHO ENFORCES AND MONITORS IT?

Identify the agency, data standard, public reporting process, enforcement power, funding and lawful appeals. A promise without a monitoring plan is basically decorative moss.

05 · CAN WE SHOW IT WORKED?

Publish changes in exposure, water, habitat, reliability, jobs and costs. Report failure as faithfully as success. If the result is worse than projected, change the program, not the measurements.

EXPLORE · WE BROUGHT THE WATER TEST KIT

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→ Explore the Vault

→ Explore Membership

SOURCES & HISTORICAL NOTES

01 · Green Party of the United States — Early History of the United States Green Party, 1984–2001.

https://www.gp.org/early_history

02 · Council on Foreign Relations — How Green-Party Success Is Reshaping Global Politics, history of green movements.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/how-green-party-success-reshaping-global-politics

03 · PBS NewsHour — Green Party History, 2000.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/bb/politics/jan-june00/green_history.html

04 · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — The Origins of EPA and its establishment in 1970.

https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa

05 · U.S. EPA — Clean Air Act Requirements and History, 1970, 1977 and 1990.

https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/clean-air-act-requirements-and-history

06 · Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — AR6 Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers, 2023.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/summary-for-policymakers/

07 · U.S. EPA — Final Rule Rescinding the 2009 Vehicle Greenhouse-Gas Endangerment Finding, February 2026.

https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/final-rule-rescission-greenhouse-gas-endangerment

08 · Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program — Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Tracker, updated September 2026.

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/greenhouse-gas-endangerment-finding/

09 · Bureau of Land Management — What We Manage: Multiple Use, Sustained Yield and Public Lands.

https://www.blm.gov/about/what-we-manage/national

10 · Utah Division of Wildlife Resources — Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program: Water Levels, November 8, 2026 reading.

https://wildlife.utah.gov/gslep/waterlevels

11 · U.S. Geological Survey — Dust from the Great Salt Lake Dry Lakebed: A Possible Health Risk, August 2025.

https://www.usgs.gov/programs/environmental-health-program/science/dust-great-salt-lake-dry-lakebed-a-possible-health

12 · Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner, State of Utah — Strategic Plan, updated June 2026.

https://greatsaltlake.utah.gov/strategic-plan/

13 · National Park Service — Theodore Roosevelt Biography and Conservation Legacy.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/theodore-roosevelt-biography.htm

14 · U.S. EPA — Clean Air Act: Highlights of the 1990 Amendments, signed by George H. W. Bush.

https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview/clean-air-act-highlights-1990-amendments

15 · U.S. Senate — Climate Stewardship Act (McCain-Lieberman) and Vote History, congressional record.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/139

16 · United Nations Environment Programme — David Attenborough Receives Lifetime Achievement Award, April 2022.

https://www.unep.org/en/news-and-stories/press-release/david-attenborough-receives-uns-most-distinguished-environment-award

17 · Conservation International — Harrison Ford, Vice Chair, Board of Directors.

https://www.conservation.org/about/our-people/board-of-directors

18 · U.S. EPA — DDT: A Brief History and Status; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/ddt-brief-history-and-status

19 · Jane Goodall Institute — Jane Goodall's Life and Death, October 1, 2025.

https://janegoodall.org/press-room-item/jane-goodall-renowned-ethologist-conservationist-and-animal-behavior-expert-passes-away-at-age-91/

20 · The Nobel Prize — Wangari Maathai, 2004 Peace Prize Facts and Green Belt Movement.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/facts/

WE ARE ONE.  ·  E PLURIBUS UNUM.