Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
This week a state court judge in Georgia issued the first court ruling in the country concluding that power plant developers and state regulators must establish permit limits for CO2 pollution from new coal-fired power plants, based upon "best available control...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
We need a lot more environmental information to begin to address the lack of public understanding of environmental harms.This may seem obvious, but it isn’t. At a meeting a few years ago, I was shocked to find the head of...continued→
Posted by David Doniger in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
So today we learned an odd new twist in the White House's refusal to let EPA regulate global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act. Felicity Barringer reports in the New York Times today that last December officials of the...continued→
Posted by Peter Lehner
Twenty years ago, Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the Senate that man-made greenhouse gas emissions were responsible for warming the climate. Yesterday, Hansen returned to the House to deliver a simple message....continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
The Bush Administration always manages to top itself. No matter how inured I think I am to the blatant hostility this Administration has for environmental protections in general—and wildlife conservation in particular—they still sometimes manage to surprise me. Today we...continued→
Posted by Phil Gutis in Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Today's Guardian newspaper quotes NASA climate scientist James Hansen calling for the executives of large fossil-fuel companies to be put on trial for crimes against humanity. "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one [of]...continued→
Posted by Phil Gutis in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Public opinion research is part of my responsibilities at NRDC and its a piece of my job that I love. There's nothing quite like watching a group of folks from behind a one-way mirror talk about the issues that NRDC...continued→
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
As a continuation of my first video blog, here I talk about two pieces of solutions-based legislation in California aimed at combatting global warming. The first is AB 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act, a landmark law that NRDC helped...continued→
Posted by Annie Notthoff in Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Hi, for my first blog I decided to post a video. Click below to watch me talk about another round of California ballot measures coming this November, including a poorly written energy proposition. Unfortunately, the sloppy language is the least...continued→
Posted by Phil Gutis in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Couldn't resist this nugget from the front page of today's USA Today: "Speeders to Pay Extra for Police Fuel."According to the paper, the City Council of suburban Holly Springs, GA, decided to help cover the spiraling cost of gasoline by...continued→
"If you are right on the law, you can make tremendous progress." So says crack litigator and NRDC executive director Peter Lehner, now blogging a wide range of environmental topics.
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