61 Votes for Oil Addiction
Posted September 10, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
Reuters, Zdnet, a site with over 1.7 million monthly viewers, and the Tennessean wrote about NRDC's newest green jobs report that suggests 2 million green jobs could be created with just $100 billion in tax credits and government investment... Reuters credits NRDC for its involvement and notes that dollar for dollar, the ‘green jobs' plan would provide 4x more jobs than investment in the oil industry, and 20% more jobs than could have been created by the April 2008 stimulus package (which cost $168 billion)... Zdnet, though cautious about ‘green propaganda' strongly suggests that this theory shouldn't be ignored... And David Hawkins is quoted repeatedly in the Tennessean speaking about the report and what it could mean for employing Tennesseans.
Newsweek online reflects on the successful clean up of the ports of LA and Long Beach, crediting NRDC and its 7 years of hard work for the impressive progress made; David Pettit speaks in the article about how pollution improvements "should provide benefits you see overnight" and prevent the ports from continuing to be the place where "old trucks go to die"... On SustainableBusiness.com Karen Wayland chides oil allied congressmen for voting against efficiency and energy independence bills 61 times this year-effectively delaying relief from high gas prices and America's addiction to oil...Oregon's Daily Astoria newspaper published a strongly worded anti-drilling editorial this Monday, calling offshore development a "distraction, a lie" and drawing on NRDC statistics and quotes for support.
