Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming
Flash back 41 years ago to a January morning in 1969 on an offshore oil platform in the Santa Barbara Channel. And back to now - the oil spill that is devastating the Gulf of Mexico is a wake-up call...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
This morning on my way to work in San Francisco, I joined 50 other people on a street corner in Oakland, just around the corner from where both my mother and father grew up and down the street from where...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Watch out: Big Oil, coal, their polluting friends and their legions of well-paid public relations minions are fueling up the hype machine once again. This time they’re saying AB 32, California’s forward-looking legislation that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming
A bunch of the dirtiest oil refiners from Texas are trying to derail landmark California legislation that will cut greenhouse gas pollution and jumpstart the state’s emerging green economy. The cabal, led by Texas-based Valero Energy Corp., Tesoro Corp., Tower...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Whoever claims that jobs and the environment don’t go hand in hand has never been to California. As our state, the eighth largest economy in the world, continues to face a tailspin of budget woes, reports continue to show...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The role of science in curbing harmful pollution has received significant play recently. A series of stolen emails has been the subject of climate change debates just as the international community is gearing up for negotiations in Copenhagen despite the...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Ending one of the most contentious legislative sessions in California's history, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed dozens of environmental bills and signed several others over the weekend that will add tons of air pollution to our environment, delay our freedom from fossil...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming
The moment Senator Dianne Feinstein opened the inaugural ceremony, I had a sense of coming home. After all, there were two California women (Feinstein and Speaker Nancy Pelosi) accompanying President Obama down the stairs and they, along with lots of...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming
Has Governor Schwarzenegger forgotten that California's environmental quality is the backbone of our economy? One of the things that make it so exciting to work in California is that, by and large, people here get it and they want to...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming
I don't know about you, but I'm still poring over the maps and looking at the percentages and trying to let it sink in. One of the things this change signals is a new chance to move the great work...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
As a continuation of my first video blog, here I talk about two pieces of solutions-based legislation in California aimed at combatting global warming. The first is AB 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act, a landmark law that NRDC helped...
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Hi, for my first blog I decided to post a video. Click below to watch me talk about another round of California ballot measures coming this November, including a poorly written energy proposition. Unfortunately, the sloppy language is the least...
