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Posted December 31, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, carcinogens, formaldehyde, IRIS, riders, righttoknow, styrene, takeouttoxics, toxic
In which a group of Senators pen fact-challenged letters on behalf of formaldehyde and styrene, currying favor with the chemical industry and undercutting government health agencies. In my last post, I discussed how EPA was compelled by the collaboration of...continued→
Posted December 30, 2011 by Amrita Batra in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming
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- CFLs, Climate, ClimateChange, Durban, India, IndiaInitiative, MoEF, NaturalDisasters, Solar, SolarMission, StateActionPlan
Climate An Urbanizing India Faces Natural Disaster Risk “The number of people exposed to natural disasters is expected to more than double to 1.5 billion by 2050, with 200 million of them in India, because of rapid urbanization and the...continued→
Posted December 30, 2011 by Rocky Kistner in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil
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- bp, fishermen, gulfspill, oilpollution
BP's newest PR salvo touting its Gulf cleanup hit a nerve with many residents still struggling to get their lives back (one ad captured this BP beach protest in the background). The oil behemoth's slickly produced pleas for Americans to “come on down” to the Gulf where the weather...continued→
Posted December 28, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, carcinogens, formaldehyde, riders, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals
The chemical industry’s war on science continues -- as far out of the public eye as possible. Shortly before Congress left for its Christmas recess, it passed an “Omnibus” budget bill, to appropriate funds for numerous federal agencies for the...continued→
Posted December 27, 2011 by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
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- bipartisanship, bipartisansolutions, economicrecovery, energyefficiency, energypolicy, housing, jobcreation, jobs
Recent economic news is not encouraging. The New York Times reports that when it comes to recovery, “experts see a false dawn.” One particularly troubling area is housing, where a new report shows home sales were 4 percent lower this...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, Solving Global Warming
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- dirtyfuels, keystonexl, oilsands, riders, tarsands
Updated as of December 26 On December 23, the House passed a "tax holiday" extension package that contains an unrelated provision to speed up a decision on the dirty energy Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. How does this help fight climate change?...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- anti-environmentalriders, carbonpollution, cleanairact, cleancars, EPA, Obama, powerplants, RalphFabri, riders, Smithsonian
Smithsonian Magazine has posted some unusual portraits of jolly Saint Nick and asked readers to vote for the Scariest Santa. Here’s my choice: Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art It’s a 1939 Christmas card from a Hungarian-born American artist named...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Pete Altman in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
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- cleanair, epa, mercury, pnp, pollution
How out of touch can the WSJ ed. board be? See for yourself...According to the folks on the Wall Street Journal editorial board, the sky is falling now that the EPA has taken long overdue steps to clean up mercury...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Doug Sims in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, Solving Global Warming
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- CADE, CCTP, Chile, energypolicy, HidroAysén, LaComisiónAsesoraparaelDesarrolloEléctrico, latinamerica, renewables, solar
Last May, in the middle of increasing public concern about energy mega-projects, particularly the proposed mega-dam complex called HidroAysén, President Piñera appointed a multi-disciplinary panel of experts to a special advisory body called La Comisión Asesora para el Desarrollo Eléctrico...continued→
Posted December 21, 2011 by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment
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- airpollution, asthma, cancer, cardiacdisease, cleanairact, coal, coalfiredpowerplants, lead, MACT, mercury, mercuryinfish, powerplants, utilities
Whenever I talk with parents of young children about my work, they often ask me about mercury pollution. They know it can harm children and pregnant women and they know it is pervasive, but they are unsure how to keep...continued→
