Posted February 14, 2013 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
President Obama in his State of the Union address reiterated the moral imperative to turn the tide on dangerous climate change. To do it, he presented a challenge to the nation to double energy efficiency and the use of renewable...continued→
Posted February 7, 2013 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
Several East Coast states set a bold model for the nation to follow today by strengthening a program that is already successfully reducing the number one contribution to climate change in the U.S.—pollution from our fossil fuel power plants—while also creating jobs,...continued→
Posted January 10, 2013 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took a bold step, a nation-leading step, in his State of the State address by committing not only to better prepare our state for climate impacts, but to address the source of the problem...continued→
Posted December 6, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
On Tuesday, NRDC released its groundbreaking proposal to cut power-plant pollution in the US by 26 percent by 2020 and 34 percent by 2025. The plan got a lot of attention, and rightly so: It will generate benefits of $6-15 for each dollar invested. It will...continued→
Posted July 25, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Today, for the second time in less than a year, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has overruled the desires of state voters and their elected representatives by vetoing legislation that would continue New Jersey’s clean-energy leadership, by ensuring the state’s...continued→
Posted June 6, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
Today, NRDC and Environment New Jersey filed suit against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s Department of Environmental Protection for illegally withdrawing the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 10-state program designed to reduce harmful air pollution and shift...continued→
Posted May 24, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil
Last year, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection illegally declared that NJ was no longer regulating greenhouse gases and was dropping out of the popular and effective Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 10-state...continued→
Posted April 30, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Two new reports out this month—one from Environment New Jersey and the other from Environmental Advocates of New York—highlight the success of a program designed to cut pollution from power plants—reducing climate change emissions and saving energy, especially for residential...continued→
Posted February 28, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
New York’s Citizens Budget Commission, a group described as “one of the oldest and most respected independent fiscal watchdog groups in the country,” is awarding its public service innovation prize this evening. The winner? New York State’s Regional Greenhouse Gas...continued→
Posted January 27, 2012 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Who doesn’t want more good things? And by good things, here’s some of what I mean: pollution cuts that help protect the health of our children and of our increasingly fragile atmosphere. (Just how bad are things getting, climate-wise? To...continued→
Posted November 17, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative works. That’s the conclusion of a new, independent review of RGGI by the Analysis Group. Undertaken three years ago by 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, RGGI was designed to: Cut the air pollution from power...continued→
Posted September 12, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his administration talk a good game about transparency and ethics in government. “Folks in this state have a right to know what we’re doing in their name every day,” the Governor told his cabinet...continued→
Posted August 22, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
When New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was running for office in 2009, he promised to be the Garden State’s “#1 clean energy advocate.” He wanted “not only to reduce dependence on foreign oil, but also to make sure we bring...continued→
Posted July 14, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
If you had a program that reduced pollution as it lowered energy bills, created jobs and injected hundreds of millions of dollars into the state economy, would you toss it out the window? Probably not. But that’s what New Jersey’s...continued→
Posted June 3, 2011 by Dale Bryk in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming
Who would have thought a utility company energy-efficiency program could double as a job-saver? Probably no one but a bunch of environmental economists. But that’s just what’s happened in Michigan, where the state’s energy-efficiency standard—the so-called EEPS—is not only reducing...continued→
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