Week of 3/4: Praise for EPA administrator nominee, food waste on TEDx, polar bear ban fails, and more NRDC in the News...
Posted March 11, 2013 in The Media and the Environment
In a McClatchy Newspapers story picked up by The San Diego Union-Tribune, Frances Beinecke praised President Obama’s nominee for EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, saying she “knows what it means to protect our air, water, land and health, and stand up to the growing threats we’re seeing from climate change”… Peter Lehner discussed NRDC’s food waste report, and how low-tech, tried-and-true solutions prove to reduce food waste and save money for consumers and businesses at the TEDx Manhattan Talk…
Anthony Swift underscored the Keystone XL pipeline’s role in advancing the expansion of tar sands extraction in Bloomberg Businessweek…
After a ban on the commercial trade of polar bear parts was voted down at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Bangkok, Andrew Wetzler told the Los Angeles Times that “the result was very disappointing, not just for us, but obviously for the fate of the world’s polar bears”… Henry Henderson and Ann Alexander spoke to the Associated Press about the process that went into developing Illinois’ draft fracking bill…
The Los Angeles Times noted David Pettit’s reminder to Los Angeles Harbor commissioners of previous promises to keep diesel trucks out of their freight yards... Kimi Narita did an interview with Kansas Community Radio - KKFI’s “EcoRadio KC” speaking on the local and national implications of the fight over Kansas’ renewable energy portfolio standard… Mae Wu’s blog was quoted in a Wired Magazine’s Superbug Science blog post on the necessity for a bill that improves data collection on livestock antibiotic use…
