Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
On September 30th Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This important step toward enacting effective and sustainable climate and energy policy will help power our economic recovery by investing in clean...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
In a landmark ruling, the federal court of appeals in New York ruled today in favor of states and private land trusts that had sued America's largest global warming polluters to curb their emissions. The case is called State of...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
A little ray of sunlight peeked through the clouds on Wednesday, the opening day of the latest round of the climate treaty talks, taking place in Accra, Ghana. The meeting began with a workshop on “sectoral approaches.” Country presentations focused...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→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
It’s Wednesday afternoon at 3:15, and looking out my window in downtown Washington, I am watching a huge thunderstorm buffet the city. The sky grew dark. Lightning, thunder, wind, and rain. Tornado warnings -- very rare here in the nation's...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
President Bush’s advisors claimed this week that using the Clean Air Act and other existing laws to fight global warming will cause “a regulatory train wreck.” The only “train wreck” we’ll have is if the president’s own engineers and switchmen...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Want a fun read? Check out EPA’s January 18 letter to Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, explaining why Administrator Stephen Johnson doesn’t want the public to see documents showing why his professional and legal...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
John Adams, our second president, famously said: "Facts are stubborn things." In a 1988 slip of the tongue, Ronald Reagan said: "Facts are stupid things." For the Bush administration, the slip of the tongue has been going on for seven...continued→
