Helping Viewers Go Green and Understand Ocean Acidification on Earth Day, Coal Plants Killing Fish in Lake Erie, Polluters Reporting their Emissions, and AB32
Posted April 23, 2010 in The Media and the Environment
In honor of Earth Day, Good Morning America ran a segment on ocean acidification using footage from NRDC’s Acid Test; the show’s website also ran two articles, here and here, on ocean acidification, including hyperlinks to NRDC in both … The Today Show advised viewers wanting to go green to check out the home energy savings calculators on NRDC’s www.SimpleSteps.org… Simple Steps also got some attention yesterday when the number-one story on Mashable.com (the third-most trafficked blog on the web) listed Wendy Gordon and Paul McRandle’s Label Lookup as one of the "10 Free iPhone Apps to Help You Go Green for Earth Day"; Also in Earth Day news, Reuters reported that the “A Bid to Save the Earth” green auction at Christie’s auction house netted nearly $2 million for environmental groups…
In an Associated Press article Shannon Fisk called into the question the economics of an aging coal plant on the shores of Lake Erie, calling it a “fish-killing machine” because it is responsible for the destruction of more than 60 million fish every year…A Slate.com article on the new requirements for polluters to report their emissions quoted David Doniger on the importance of the requirement… Annie Notthoff spoke with the New York Times’ Bay Area Blog about attempts to block California’s landmark climate change legislation AB32; she was also pictured in the post…
