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Posted May 20, 2013 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cleaneconomy, cleanenergy, cleanjobs, climatechange, Colorado, energy, renewableenergy, res, rps
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature on SB 252 to improve and expand the amount of renewable energy that utilities must provide will propel him into national leadership on clean energy by expanding and strengthening Colorado’s clean energy law, and...continued→
Posted May 15, 2013 by John Romano in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming
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- climatechange, earthsummit, rio+20, sustainability, sustainabledevelopment, unitednations
NRDC has joined hundreds of other civil society organizations in support of a proposal for the establishment of a UN “High Commissioner for Future Generations.” While the top national leaders at the Rio+20 Earth Summit last year reaffirmed their concern...continued→
Posted May 10, 2013 by Jennifer Sass in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, EPA, IRIS, methanol, PBPK, RfC, RfD, risk, riskassessment, toxic, toxicchemicals
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) IRIS program issued its draft Toxicological review of methanol for public comment and external peer review. The document provides an assessment of the noncancerous health effects of chronic methanol exposure, and updates the health-based limit...continued→
Posted May 8, 2013 by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably
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- environmentaljustice, losangeles, portoflosangeles, portpollution, railroads, scig
For a City Council that has gotten many things right, it was hit by a train of misinformation in its approval of BNSF’s Southern California International Gateway railyard project today. After hours of testimony on this matter, the City Council...continued→
Posted May 2, 2013 by Daniel Raichel in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment
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- fracking, homerule, newyork, zoning
For those keeping score, today’s ruling by the state Appellate Division in the Dryden and Middlefield cases marks the fifth and sixth victories in an undefeated winning streak for the right of New York towns to use their zoning authority...continued→
Posted May 2, 2013 by Scott Slesinger in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- DOT,, EIS,, environmentalreview,, NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct,, NEPA,, project,WRDA, quality,, roads,, wrdaair
As the Senate continues the actions of the infrastructure committees to weaken public participation and environmental reviews of federal projects, there is another way communities can protect themselves from the heavy hand of bulldozers and narrowly focused federal bureaucrats. In...continued→
Posted April 29, 2013 by Noah Long in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cleanenergy, Colorado, electricity, energy, renewableenergy, res, rockymountains, rps, utilities
Critical votes in The Colorado legislature late Friday night and yesterday represent yet another victory for renewable energy despite a national drive by the fossil fuel industry to roll back standards supporting increased clean power sources like wind and solar....continued→
Posted April 26, 2013 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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- Safe Chemicals Act, saferchemicalshealthyfamilies, takeouttoxics, toxics, TSCA
This month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand introduced the Safe Chemicals Act, for the new Congress. The bill would repair a badly broken federal law – The Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) – which...continued→
Posted April 25, 2013 by Jon Devine in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cleanwater, cleanwateract, epa, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, water, waterpollution, waterprogram
During his confirmation hearing to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts famously analogized the role of a judge to that of a baseball umpire, saying: Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. The role of...continued→
Posted April 24, 2013 by Adrian Martinez in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably
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- dontwastela, losangeles, losangelescitycouncil, waste
In one week, the LA City Council has tackled adopting a position to move away from coal and addressing its trash woes — talk about a productive Earth Week in LA. On trash today, the Los Angeles City Council overwhelmingly approved...continued→
