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The Campaign for Environmental Literacy advocates for increased federal funding for an increasingly vital yet ignored subject: environmental education. CEL provides a collective voice in Washington for the broad environmental education community (including ocean, conservation and sustainability education) and its supporters in business, health, and other fields. Founded in 2005, we helped restore over $30 million in funding cuts for environmental education during our first two years. Our 2007 campaigns are well underway:

• Include environmental education in the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, expected in 2007.
• Restore and double the FY08 appropriations for NOAA's Office of Education to $10 million (including NOAA's "Environmental Literacy Grants" program).
• Restore $9.2 million in funding for the EPA's Office of Environmental Education.

Your voice plays a critical role in our shared success, so please be sure to visit our Action Center where you can speak up and be counted! You can also send a letter to the editor to your local newspaper supporting environmental education. And, if you represent a business or organization that supports environmental literacy, please see our Partner's Page to learn more about ways we can help you make your voice heard.

Help Restore EE Funding!

Let your Senators and Congressman know you support NOAA's Environmental Literacy program and that it should be funded at $12 million. Take Action >>

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Campaign Updates from the Hill Follow the latest developments in the Campaign's work on Capitol Hill. Updates include news on our legislative initiatives as well as this year's important appropriations bills.

News Highlights

2/18/07: Microscopes vs. Video Games: For the Sake of Our Nation, Schools Must Teach More Science

2/05/07: FY08 Forest Service Budget Calls for Land Sales To Support Conservation Education, Public Access, and Habitat Improvement

2/2/07: UK Announces that All Pupils Will Be Given Lessons in Climate Change

2/2/07: Copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" to be Given to British Schools

1/30/07: JOSI Gives US Ocean Education Policy a Grade of D+

1/19/07: Over 70 Refuge Positions Cut in 8 Midwest States

1/8/07: How Bush Education Law Has Changed Our Schools

12/19/06: 'Sustainability' Gains Status on US Campuses

11/22/06: Nature Programs' Goal: No Child Left Inside

11/21/06: Groups Aim to 'Plant Seeds' with Kids

11/9/06: NOAA Announces Deadline for Two 2007 Environmental Literacy Grant Programs

11/1/06: Effort to Give Students a Bay Experience Has Slow But Sure Learning Curve

10/20/06: The Sustainable University

10/11/06: EPA Announces New Higher Education Environmental Management Grant