Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil
Tomorrow night I have the honor of introducing Bobby Kennedy Jr. at a free event open to the public in New York City. Bobby will be talking about "Our Environmental Future," and I invite you to join us for an...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Climate Week has begun, and as foreign dignitaries descend on the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, I think most of the world's nations will be singing a shared refrain: it is time for the United States...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
Over the past year, I have noticed a disturbing trend. More and more people approach me to say that they or someone they love has dangerously high levels of mercury in their system. When actor Jeremy Piven recently bowed out...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
President Obama has deftly used his time in office to make bold statements on everything from Guantanamo to global warming. In two weeks, he will have another opportunity to send a message to the world that the United States is...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming
Americans have been assaulted on the airwaves with ads about so-called "clean coal." What happened in East Tennessee, where a breach of a coal ash pond at a power plant send a billion gallons of toxic sludge into nearby communities,...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Back in the seventies and eighties, I got called names because of the work I did: "tree hugger" was a favorite, so was "bleeding heart." But that was a long time ago, before energy security and green enterprise became mainstream...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
The New York Times ran an article last Friday about how high costs are slowing down the development of technology that can capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. What the article doesn’t discuss is the best way to drive...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
2007 was the year that America’s business pages turned green. Everybody wanted to get into the act. Companies from well-known leaders like Whole Foods and Toyota to historical laggards GM and ExxonMobil were touting their plans to save the planet....continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming
Many of the issues we work on take decades to get the results we want. But at other times, things begin to fall into place with surprising speed. That’s happening now with dirty coal.Over the past year, one after another...continued→
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Last week the New York Times caused a flap among fish lovers when it detected alarmingly high levels of mercury in several samples of tuna sushi bought from Manhattan restaurants and stores. The mercury in question comes largely from coal-fired...continued→
