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WASHINGTON, DC - Last night, President Barack Obama addressed Congress to give his . As a response to the President's emphasis on clean energy, the ���Ĵ�ý issued the following statement:

“President Obama nailed it: Climate change is a threat to all of us, and we have to focus relentlessly on solutions. That means dumping dirty energy and building a clean energy future,” said ���Ĵ�ý President and CEO David Yarnold. “Climate change threatens half of America’s bird species, so the ���Ĵ�ý network is pressing hard for solutions. ���Ĵ�ý members are  promoting clean energy in their communities, changing the plants in their backyards, and protecting the places birds need to survive. We can be what hope looks like to a bird.”

To learn more about birds and climate change, please visit /conservation/climate-change. 

The ���Ĵ�ý saves birds and their habitats throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education and on-the-ground conservation. ���Ĵ�ý's state programs, nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, ���Ĵ�ý's vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive. ���Ĵ�ý is a nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at  and .

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