NRDC in the News 5/5: Oil leasing, ethanol, toxic chemicals and more...
Posted May 5, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
As gas prices continue to skyrocket across the country, Frances Beinecke was quoted in a Bloomberg piece about a bill passed by the House of Representatives today that would require the Obama administration to speed up the sale of domestic oil leases; Frances stressed that politicians’ claims that the proposal would lower gas prices are misleading and dangerous…
Roland Hwang cautioned Bloomberg Newsroom that a federal program ostensibly aimed at encouraging alternative fuel vehicles within the government fleet might actually increase gasoline use…
In USA Today, Sarah Janssen suggested ways in which parents can reduce their children’s exposure to toxic chemicals at home… Kate Poole spoke with McClatchy Newspapers about a judge’s ruling in California that will give the federal government two additional years to update its protection plan for the endangered Delta smelt… In a Greenwire article carried by the New York Times, Meleah Geertsma discussed the first global warming pollution permits being issued by the EPA…
