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November 20, 2009
Posted by Thom Cmar in Curbing Pollution
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- albany, ballastwater, coastguard, doorcounty, EPA, greatlakes, lakemichigan, newyork, newyorkattorneygeneral, shipping, vessels, VHS, viralhemorrhagicsepticemia, wisconsin, wisconsin DNR
Door County, Wisconsin is famous for their fish boils. We are talking about massive kettles of Lake Michigan white fish with potatoes, onions and the perfect spices boiling in giant bonfires on the beach. Yum, it's a great tradition that...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Henry Henderson in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
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- asiancarp, atrazine, charlesduhigg, chicago, chicagoriver, chicagotribune, greatlakes, illinois, invasivespecies, lakemichigan, newyorktimes, pollution, privatizedwater, waterpollution
We have been awash with an array of unhappy water stories in this region of late. On the surface they are unrelated ... scary fish ... E. coli contamination ... improperly regulated pesticides ... intentionally poisoned waterways .... But if...continued→
November 19, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
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- brownfields, community, communitydevelopment, neighborhood, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth, vacantproperties
Earlier this month I began a series of posts about Indianapolis's Smart Growth Redevelopment District, which I have had the honor of advising. The area in question is a distressed part of the city, two miles northeast of...continued→
November 17, 2009
Posted by David Pettit in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
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- americantruckingassociation, portoflongbeach, portpollution, trucking
Last night, there was a hearing at the Port of Long Beach about the Port's decision to settle the American Trucking Association case on terms that I think are so weak that they are a setback to clean air and...continued→
November 16, 2009
Posted by Anthony Clark in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
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- greenliving, noimpactweek, simplesteps
Monday's "Trash" Generated at the Office With the first weekday of this experiment nearly complete I can say (and show above) that my impact has been small. Other than that napkin I used out of habit during lunch I...continued→
November 16, 2009
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
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- bobbykennedy, cleanenergycommonsense, coalfiredpowerplants, coalindustry, coalmining, fgbbook, globalwarming, kennedy, mountaintopremoval, nuclearpower, townhall
Tomorrow night I have the honor of introducing Bobby Kennedy Jr. at a free event open to the public in New York City. Bobby will be talking about "Our Environmental Future," and I invite you to join us for an...continued→
November 15, 2009
Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- americanpetroleuminstitute, API, cafestandards, cleancars, presidentobama, waxmanmarkey
While the oil lobby continues its gas attack on climate legislation, a recent government study suggests that accelerating CAFE standards under the Waxman-Markey climate bill would actually lower our gas bills by more than 10% over the next two decades...continued→
November 13, 2009
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- asbestos, BPA, carcinogens, chemicalpolicyreform, chemicals, endocrinedisrupters, formaldehyde, TSCA
In Wednesday's Washington Post, Lyndsey Layton reported on a recent study examining the impact of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), on the reproductive systems of human males (as the story notes, previous studies have been of mice and rats). The...continued→
November 13, 2009
Posted by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
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- diesel, heatingoil, nystatelegislature, particulatepollution
Ever wonder why some buildings in New York have a plume of black smoke coming out of their smokestacks? That soot comes from #2 heating oil, a close cousin of diesel fuel. It's similar to the diesel fuel in New York's...continued→
November 13, 2009
Posted by Eric Goldstein in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
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- drinkingwater, gasdrilling, hydraulicfracturing, hydrofracking, marcellusshale, naturalgas, newyork, NYCwatershed, NYSDEC
You'd have thought that Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte were right there, distributing autographed World Series photos. But no -- the big crowd outside of Stuyvesant High School Tuesday night was there for less glamorous but more weighty reasons. They...continued→