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Good News and Bad News About the Polar Bear Decision

May 15, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke

Tags:
arcticseaice, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, polarbears, threatenedspecies

There was good news and bad news for the polar bear yesterday. First, the good: after a three-year legal battle waged by NRDC and the Center for Biological Diversity, the Bush Administration announced that it will protect polar bears as...continued

A coal powered ethanol plant and a test of the new RFS

May 14, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, coal, curwensville, ethanol, markettransformation, RFS, sunnysideethanol

In a little town in central Pennsylvania, a company called Sunnyside Ethanol, LLC (owned by Consus Ethanol, LLC) wants to build an 80 million gallon per year corn ethanol refinery that would get its heat and power from a waste...continued

Op-ed on biofuels, food prices, and GHG emissions

May 13, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, foodvsfuel, leelynd, mascoma, RFS

It has already been such a crazy week that I'm only just getting a chance to do my own PR. On Monday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an op-ed coauthored by my friend Lee Lynd and yours truly. Lee is...continued

How smart is your city?

May 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cities, driving, green-cities, publictransportation, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, sustainability, sustainable, transit-oriented-development, walkable

  After so many wonky posts in a row, this time I'm going to lighten up with one of those fun internet quizzes that I can do more or less all day when I have something I want to procrastinate.  This...continued

Ecological Accounting: A New Measure of Economic Health

May 13, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke

Tags:
bridgeattheedgeoftheworld, capitalism, consumerism, extinction, globalwarming, gusspeth, WRI, yaleforestryschool

My day-to-day work life focuses on relatively concrete notions: passing global warming legislation, getting more energy efficient appliances into the hands of consumers, pushing automakers to produce more efficient cars. These are the tools I believe we must use to...continued

Rethinking environmental impacts to manage growth

May 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
carbon, co2, driving, growth-management, impervious-surface, runoff, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater

 When faced with a situation where rapid growth is occurring, such as I discussed yesterday, the best thing to do environmentally is to manage and shape it so that a good quality of life is maintained with the least environmental harm.  This...continued

Cool New Car Sticker Shows Which Are Cleanest

May 8, 2008

Posted by Luke Tonachel in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
CARB, carlabel, cleancars, driveclean, fueleconomy, globalwarming, simplesteps, smog

Car shopping? Coming very soon in California is a handy new window sticker that makes it easy to choose the cleanest vehicles. It’s terrific in its simplicity; each car, SUV, minivan or pickup will get a 1-10 score on the...continued

In hand wringing over biofuels mandate, safeguards at risk

May 7, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
biofuels, cornbasedethanol, foodvsfuel, forest, hersethsandlin, hr5236, markettransformation, RFS

The Hill was alive with the sound of finger pointing and hand-wringing yesterday when I testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality about the RFS. (All the testimony including mine is available...continued

BP Could Learn A Lot from James Brown

May 6, 2008

Posted by Josh Mogerman in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
BP, JamesBrown, NorthwestIndiana, pollution, tarsands, WhitingRefinery

James Brown famously exclaimed “Give the drummer some…”BP could learn a lot from the late, great, Godfather of Soul.Last week was a very good one for the British oil giant. Tuesday, BP announced that they had brought in a jaw-dropping...continued

DOE Says We Can Have Carbon Caps and Economic Growth

May 2, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke

Tags:
carboncaps, cleantech, departmentofenergy, globalwarming, greencollarjobs, liebermanwarner, markettransformation

You have heard me talk about the economic benefits of passing a global warming law. Now you can get the news from the Department of Energy itself. This week, the DOE’s Energy Information Agency released a report showing that we...continued