- Dave Hawkins
- Director of NRDC's climate center, Washington, D.C.
- Blog | About
- Posted July 2, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
NRDC's David Hawkins is among the experts -- along with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack -- scheduled to testify on Tuesday, July 7 before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee....continued→
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- ACES, cleanenergy, climatebills, climatechange, congress, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming
- Allison Silverman
- Campaign Coordinator, Patagonia BioGem, New York City
- Blog | About
- Posted July 2, 2009 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I am thrilled to announce the findings of a groundbreaking energy study that shows the HydroAisen mega-dam project is completely unnecessary! Today in Santiago, the Patagonia Defense Council, of which NRDC is a member, will launch an...continued→
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- chile, energy, HydroAysen, hydroelectricdams, patagonia, patagonia sin represas, renewableenergy
- Rob Perks
- Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C.
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- Posted July 2, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court made a dreadful decision to allow the dumping of toxic gold mine waste into a pristine Alaskan lake. The court deemed this pollution allowable as "fill material" under the Clean Water Act. Well, last night on The Colbert...continued→
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- cleanwateract, colbert, fill, fillrule, obama, stephencolbert, supreme
- Kaid Benfield
- Director, Smart Growth Program, Washington, DC
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- Posted July 2, 2009 in Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
Warning: this is a long one. Readers of a certain age will remember Joni's Mitchell's iconic anthem "Woodstock," celebrating the famous 1969 music festival (which, incidentally, she did not attend, but I digress). The song became a monster hit for...continued→
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- community, detroit, historicpreservation, landbanks, neighborhood, recession, revitalization, rustbelt, shrinkingcities, smartercities, smartgrowth, sprawl, vacantproperties
- Rob Perks
- Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C.
- Blog | About
- Posted July 1, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
Pollution and poverty caused by the development of oil reserves have deprived tens of million of Nigerians their basic human rights, according to Amnesty International, which calls oil a "resource curse" for the region. "People living in the Niger Delta have to...continued→
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- appalachia, dirtycoal, kentucky, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, westvirginia
- Kaid Benfield
- Director, Smart Growth Program, Washington, DC
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- Posted July 1, 2009 in Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
Streetfilms has released a great short video about how our streets and traffic patterns pose particular challenges to senior citizens on foot. With the assistance of New York City's Transportation Alternatives, that city's impressive DOT has begun an earnest look...continued→
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- community, completestreets, neighborhood, pedestrians, safety, smartercities, smartgrowth, traffic, walking
- Lane Burt
- Energy Policy Analyst, Washington DC
- Blog | About
- Posted July 1, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
On Monday, President Obama and Secretary Chu announced a strengthened final rule on lamps that will save consumers $4 billion annually by 2022. This standard would cover the tube fluorescent bulbs (general service fluorescent or GSFL) that we are all...continued→
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- efficiencystandards, energy, energyefficiency, lighting, simplesteps
- Pete Altman
- Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C.
- Blog | About
- Posted July 1, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
By passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), or H.R. 2454, the U.S. House of Representatives set the U.S. on a course to create millions of new clean energy jobs and save consumers money on their electric and...continued→
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- Andrew Wetzler
- Director, Endangered Species Project, Chicago
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- Posted June 30, 2009 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
Jonathan Zasloff, an environmental law professor at UCLA, has an interesting post up at Legal Planet about the role of environmentalism and religion, a topic I’ve touched on here at Switchboard before. Zasloff is taking a course on Jewish...continued→
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- consevation, environmentalism, globalwarming, policy, religion
- Frances Beinecke
- President of NRDC, New York City
- Blog | About
- Posted June 30, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
As I savor last Friday's historic House vote to pass clean energy and climate legislation, I can't help but think about last June, when leaders in the Senate tried to pass a groundbreaking climate bill. What has changed since then? ...continued→
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- ACES, cleanenergy, copenhagencountdown, energyandclimate2009, globalwarming, greenjobs, simplesteps, waxman
- Henry Henderson
- Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois
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- Posted June 30, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
In the demanding push to pass legislation that will deal with CO2 and climate change, it is easy to lose sight of more traditional air pollution problem we have in the Midwest. I got a very personal reminder of the...continued→
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- airpollution, cancer, cookcounty, epa, granitecity, illinois, madisoncounty, missouri, pollution, st.louis, stlouispostdispatch
- Kaid Benfield
- Director, Smart Growth Program, Washington, DC
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- Posted June 30, 2009 in Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
Tyler Caine has a terrific post on his sustainability blog Intercon extolling climate change policy to get on the smart growth bandwagon. He says it extremely well, so I am just going to quote a few bits and...continued→
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- costsofsprawl, globalwarming, greenfields, infill, markettransformation, smartercities, smartgrowth, sprawl
- David Doniger
- Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center, Washington, D.C.
- Blog | About
- Posted June 30, 2009 in Solving Global Warming
Today the Environmental Protection Agency will give California the long-awaited green light to enforce its landmark standards to cut global warming pollution from new motor vehicles. This is a major step in implementing the clean car peace treaty unveiled by...continued→
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- california, cleanairact, cleancars, EPA waiver, globalwarming pollution, obama administration
- Justin Horner
- Policy Analyst, San Francisco
- Blog | About
- Posted June 29, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
Last week, President Obama signed the Supplemental Appropriations bill, which, readers of this blog will certainly remember, contains a provision permitting transit agencies to use 10% of their stimulus funding for operations. Up until the President’s signature, stimulus funds were...continued→
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- publictransportation, transit, transportation
- Rob Perks
- Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C.
- Blog | About
- Posted June 29, 2009 in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Solving Global Warming
After pressure by NRDC and others, today the Environmental Protection Agency just released the list of 44 "high hazard" coal ash disposal sites around the nation. At the behest of the Department of Homeland Security, the EPA had initially refused to reveal the...continued→
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- coal, coalash, dirtycoal, simplesteps, tennessee
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