Media Scan 3/3: China's clean energy goals; Big Oil's political power; Keystone pipeline; more...
Posted March 3, 2011 in The Media and the Environment
In an extensive interview with China Daily, Frances Beinecke stressed that China should not only develop aggressive targets for reducing global warming emissions and spurring clean energy, but should also focus heavily on meeting those targets… Bob Deans appeared on American Public Media’s radio show Marketplace, discussing the extraordinary wealth and political power enjoyed by the oil industry…
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz spoke with the Associated Press (picked up by Businessweek.com) about a letter sent by NRDC and other groups to the U.S. State Department, calling for a thorough environmental impact study of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to Texas; the article was also carried by the Houston Chronicle and Billings Gazette… In the Montreal Gazette, Susan commended Secretary of State Clinton for not prematurely endorsing the Keystone XL Pipeline…
Alvin Lin appeared on Blue Ocean Network’s Chinalogue program to speak about China’s progress on clean energy, as well as the country’s environmental challenges… E Magazine’s EarthTalk blog cited an NRDC report on the wastefulness and excessive cost of bottled water…
