Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
A group of prominent ecologists and climate scientists have an important article coming out in tomorrow's issue of Science, in which they call for "fixing a critical climate accounting error." The error is ignoring a significant source of global warming pollution...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
It is vital to enact comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year - to help deliver economic, energy, and climate security. As President Obama has said, the choice is "between a slow decline and renewed prosperity; between the past and...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
With the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) poised for an historic vote in the House of Representatives on Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency released a new analysis of the costs of implementing the legislation. This analysis finds that...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Last week President Obama galvanized the debate about how to ensure an economic recovery with clean energy investments by calling on this Congress to deliver global warming legislation for him to sign. The administration followed this up by releasing a...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
George Will gets one thing right in "Dark Green Doomsayers" published in Sunday's Washington Post. Scientific predictions aren't always right. But ironically his suggestion that scientists systematically overstate the risk of environmental harm in general, and global warming in particular,...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Despite two decades of talking about slowing global warming the actual rate at which heat-trapping carbon dioxide is building up in the atmosphere is accelerating according to new data released yesterday. Juliet Eilperin's story on this research made page 2...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Moving Beyond Oil
Some members of Congress are trying to lift the moratorium that protects parts of our Outer Continental Shelf and the Arctic Wildlife Refuge from harmful oil drilling. They are giving a token nod to the real solutions – energy efficiency...continued→
