Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Today the Environmental Protection Agency issued rules to curb carbon pollution from big power plants and other big polluters under the Clean Air Act, while at the same time assuring millions of small businesses – from mom and pop operations,...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
updated May 13th, 12pm Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled today the long-awaited draft of their American Power Act. The launch of their bill kicks off an intensive effort to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Time for an update on new moves to control hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – a group of powerful global warming chemicals – under the Montreal Protocol and the Clean Air Act. I’ve written here and here about the opportunity to make quick...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
There are many powerful statements from American scientific authorities and American business and political leaders on the strength of the science undergirding global warming – so many that perhaps new reports from the National Academy of Sciences, or new statements...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The federal clean car standards to be issued Thursday by President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation are a giant step in our country’s journey towards a cleaner and more secure future. This is an achievement more than 10...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
President Obama met today with a bipartisan group of Senators on climate and energy legislation. As NRDC President Frances Beinecke writes here, high-level engagement by the White House and an expanded set of Senators from both parties is the key...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
A rogues’ gallery of science-denying coal and oil companies, industry lobbyists and trade associations, right-wing advocacy groups, and ultra-conservative elected officials have lined up to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its landmark “endangerment finding” – the Agency’s scientific determination...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Don't Dismantle the Clean Air Act As A Tool To Protect Us From Global Warming post updated February 9 and February 27 The Clean Air Act has protected Americans from dangerous air pollution for 40 years. It has saved...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
President Obama’s FY2011 budget proposal reiterates his commitment to creating jobs and strengthening our economy by building a clean energy future, and his determination to combat climate change through international agreements, comprehensive new climate and energy legislation, and action under...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The first fruits of the Copenhagen Accord were realized over the last few days as the world’s largest carbon emitters – and some smaller countries too – recorded their emissions mitigation commitments and actions under the Copenhagen Accord. In the...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
Last month President Obama threw himself into the deadlocked Copenhagen climate summit. The president challenged his fellow leaders this way: We know the fault lines because we've been imprisoned by them for years. These international discussions have essentially taken place...
Posted by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
In her recent floor speech attacking the Clean Air Act as a tool to protect Americans from global warming, Senator Lisa Murkowski made error after error on how the nation’s most successful pollution control law works, how it will affect...
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming
The Copenhagen climate deal that President Obama hammered out Friday night with the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa broke through years of negotiating gridlock to achieve three critical goals. First, it provides for real cuts in heat-trapping...
Posted by David Doniger in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
The Copenhagen climate talks got a big boost on Thursday as the United States and China made two important moves on finance and transparency that could unlock the door to an agreement when some 115 presidents and prime ministers convene...
Posted by David Doniger in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
This post co-authored with Barbara Finamore, NRDC’s China Program Director. The Copenhagen climate summit is coming to its moment of truth, and all eyes will be on the United States and China. Together these two countries account for 42 percent...
