Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is travelling to Wyoming later this week. She is being hosted by Governor Dave Freudenthal on a tour of energy production sites, including a natural gas drilling operation in Pinedale. NRDC has worked with local partners for years to help protect...
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil
Earlier today, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. During the hearing she was asked about the risk to drinking water safety posed by the practice...
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Thanks to the dogged persistence of Governor Ritter and his expert staff, Colorado has new oil and gas rules that will help make the industry a better neighbor and position it for a cleaner and stronger energy future. The new rules were...
Posted by Amy Mall in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Our colleagues at Western Resource Advocates just released a report called "Water on the Rocks" that catalogues all the water rights in Colorado that have been acquired by oil shale interests, or could be used by them, to develop oil shale on...
Posted by Amy Mall in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and the World Resources Institute recently worked together to publish "A Roadmap for a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Economy." The Roadmap is intended to produce win-win-win recommendations that benefit energy security, our economy, and the climate. The...
Posted by Amy Mall in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
There is less than a week before President-elect Obama's inauguration. Tomorrow, there will be a Senate hearing on the nominee for the new Secretary of the Interior--Senator Ken Salazar. Nevertheless, despite the many changes in Washington, the Bush administration is staying...
Posted by Amy Mall in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Earlier this week the Bush administration announced another parting gift for Big Oil in the form of new oil shale regulations. What America, and the world, really needs is investment in clean energy solutions -- like plug-in cars -- that will reduce our dependence on...
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Read the fine print and you'll find that the financial rescue package passed by Congress last week also provided a big favor for dirty fuels that have a much greater climate impact than conventional fuel. Yep - more than $4...
