Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
While carbon dioxide gets the most attention, other heat-trapping pollutants contribute to rising temperatures and the dangers of global warming. One set of chemicals, called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), poses a rapidly growing threat. The world community has a big opportunity to...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
On September 30th Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This important step toward enacting effective and sustainable climate and energy policy will help power our economic recovery by investing in clean...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to curb carbon pollution from big power plants and other big polluters under the Clean Air Act, while at the same time assuring the millions of mom and pop businesses across the country...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer kicked off the Senate's effort to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation today by introducing the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The Environment and Public Works Committee, which Sen. Boxer chairs, is...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The G-20 meeting will conclude later today here in Pittsburgh, but we can say already that for climate policy, this has not been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. Here's my highlight reel for the week: Court rings bell on...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
In a landmark ruling, the federal court of appeals in New York ruled today in favor of states and private land trusts that had sued America's largest global warming polluters to curb their emissions. The case is called State of...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The United States, Canada, and Mexico today announced a joint proposal to phase down a class of powerful global warming pollutants, called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), under the Montreal Protocol, the treaty adopted more than 20 years ago to protect the ozone...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Grrr... You can almost hear the teeth grinding in the editorial board room of the Wall Street Journal. That pesky EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has outfoxed us again! In an editorial called "Terms of 'Endangerment'" (hey, that was the title...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Last week 10 moderate Democratic Senators sent President Obama a letter outlining provisions they need to see in climate legislation to address the concerns of states that are heavily dependent on energy-intensive manufacturing and coal-fired electric power. Some news outlets read...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
All eyes are focusing on the climate change negotiations coming to a head in Copenhagen in December, as more than 190 nations try to hammer out an effective regime to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping pollutants. Meanwhile, with...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Today the Environmental Protection Agency will give California the long-awaited green light to enforce its landmark standards to cut global warming pollution from new motor vehicles. This is a major step in implementing the clean car peace treaty unveiled by...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The House of Representatives will soon vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). This will be the most important clean energy and climate protection vote that Congress has ever cast. The ACES bill passed the Energy...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
As the urgency of global warming increases, old divides are breaking down and old adversaries are starting to cooperate. Fortune 100 companies have come together with leading environmental organizations in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which produced a Blueprint for...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
What a gas! Today I was on hand for President Obama's announcement of new national standards for cars and trucks to cut their global warming pollution and raise their fuel economy. It was a picture-perfect day in the White House...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
On Monday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will begin a week-long marathon to pass long-overdue clean energy and climate legislation. After more than a month of extensive negotiations among members of the committee, Chairmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey...
