New Era, New Czars
Posted December 11, 2008 in The Media and the Environment
In the LA Times (as well as the Chicago Tribune, Agence France Presse and others) Frances Beinecke praises the incoming Obama administration for taking America's energy challenges seriously by creating an "energy czar" position to help guide White House energy leadership... New York Times' current editorial criticizes the auto industry for waging lawsuits based on the false claim that they could not meet higher fuel efficiency standards necessary for meeting higher emissions requirements in California and other states... John Walke looks forward to the environmental and health opportunities that will come with the next administration in a McClatchy Newspapers piece reporting that EPA has suddenly abandoned two longstanding attempts to loosen air-pollution standards for coal plants; articles quoting John also ran in Reuters, AP, New York Times, Washington Post and several others...
Jake Schmidt mourns the growing resistance by some countries to the progressive European global warming plans in the Washington Post... On PBS Nightly Business Report Deron Lovaas talks about GM's shift into the 21st century and towards plans that encourage improved fuel efficiency... And NRDC's petition to list whitebark pine as an endangered species continues to garner attention in online and print outlets; San Francisco Chronicle explains the basis for whitebark pine concerns in a Thin Green Line blog post.
