Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to curb carbon pollution from big power plants and other big polluters under the Clean Air Act, while at the same time assuring the millions of mom and pop businesses across the country...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The G-20 meeting will conclude later today here in Pittsburgh, but we can say already that for climate policy, this has not been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. Here's my highlight reel for the week: Court rings bell on...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Grrr... You can almost hear the teeth grinding in the editorial board room of the Wall Street Journal. That pesky EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has outfoxed us again! In an editorial called "Terms of 'Endangerment'" (hey, that was the title...continued→
Posted by David Doniger 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→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The House of Representatives will soon vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). This will be the most important clean energy and climate protection vote that Congress has ever cast. The ACES bill passed the Energy...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
What a gas! Today I was on hand for President Obama's announcement of new national standards for cars and trucks to cut their global warming pollution and raise their fuel economy. It was a picture-perfect day in the White House...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
ABC News is making a big deal about a document attributed to the White House Office of Management and Budget critiquing the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health and the...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Join David Doniger, NRDC's chief global warming attorney, at 1 p.m. Eastern today, April 20, for a special online chat. Doniger will take questions on Friday's official determination by the EPA that global warming pollution endangers public health, and the...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
At long last, the Environmental Protection Agency today officially recognized that the carbon pollution from our cars and power plants leads to killer heat waves, stronger hurricanes, higher smog levels, and many other direct and indirect threats to human health. ...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Nine members of Congress, led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, have introduced a malicious little bill – curiously numbered H.R. 6666 – to block the regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and any other...continued→
