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Unintended Consequences

December 27, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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cleanairact, coal, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, NEPA

When the Bush Administration decided that it absolutely positively was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming--and it damned sure wasn't going to let anyone else use it that way--someone in the bowels of...continued

Hooray for Westerville

October 24, 2007

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
AMP, coal, ohio, powerplant

As I've talked about here before, NRDC's Midwest Office is fighting a proposal by the American Municipal Power company to build a 1,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Meigs County, Ohio.  Before AMP can move forward with its plant, however,...continued

As goes Ohio?

September 18, 2007

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
AMP, cleanair, coal, energy, oberlin, powerplant

So goes the nation, or at least that's the old saw.  Last night I drove up from our office in Columbus, Ohio, to Oberlin (a truly charming town) for a City Council meeting about whether Oberlin should sign-up with American Municipal Power-Ohio...continued

Andrew Wetzler
Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
Chicago
I grew up in New York City but spent my summers canoeing and hiking in...
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