NRDC in the News 12/5: Clean-energy job investments, Congress' assault on regulations, Keystone XL update and more...
Posted December 5, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
In a Wall Street Journal piece about increasing investments in renewable-energy jobs and training, Cai Steger discussed E2's clean energy jobs report and explained how green tech jobs are growing… Jake Schmidt spoke with Bloomberg BusinessWeek about China adopting goals to reduce pollution saying, “We are definitely seeing some hints of softening from China on this question of whether or not they’d be willing to accept a binding commitment at some point in the future.” Jake was also quoted in the Associated Press and Washington Post about the COP 17 talks…
Scott Slesinger explained to the Houston Chronicle's Texas on the Potomac blog that Texas Rep. Lamar Smith’s bill aimed at regulations “doesn’t have anything to do with jobs” but instead “makes it impossible to write new standards for health, the environment, banking, anything”… David Goldston criticized Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s ongoing pushback against several EPA regulations as destructive to the environment in a McClatchy Newspapers article that was picked up by The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, Boston Herald, and the Lexington Herald-Leader… John Walke expressed concerns in the Houston Chronicle’s FuelFix blog about the EPA’s plan to ease rules for reducing toxic emissions from industrial boilers and incinerators…
Anthony Swift spoke with The Nation blog about Nebraska Rep.Lee Terry’s bill that would take the Keystone XL pipeline decision away from the State Department, and award it to the independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, saying that Terry’s bill would “set FERC up to fail when it comes to this process”… NRDC was cited in a Journal News’ LoHud.com article about lingering public concerns over fracking in New York state… Henry Henderson was quoted in the popular Chicago blog Gapers Block about NRDC’s collaborative work with architect Jeanne Gang on Reverse Effect, a book outlining creative concepts for greening the Chicago River while rebuffing the advance of Asian carp…
